GOD'S TIMING

by Barbara Chadwick

 

 Have you seen that plaque that says: Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the MOMENTS that take our breath away.

We were going 40 miles per hour on highway 287. The snow was hurling at the windshield. It was hard to see then an 18 wheeler went around us kicking up more snow and blinding us even more. Suddenly we hit a patch of black ice. The right front wheel slipped off the pavement and as Kenneth pulled back onto the highway the car began fishtailing and he lost total control. The car careened into oncoming traffic – an 18 wheeler and several cars. I held my breath. I didn’t know a car could feel so fast at 40 mph!  Just two seconds before the car would have slammed into that truck it felt as if an unseen hand turned it away. I thought, “OK, so this is the way we’re going to die. At least we’re together!” The car turned almost180 degrees and we were looking back down the highway when the car turned again and we slipped out into the field! We saw and heard bushes slamming the sides of the car. I remember thinking, “Oh man, this is seriously going to scratch up this car!” It twisted and turned in the field then miraculously ended up back on the roadway going the right direction!!! We continued toward home – only going even slower.

At the meeting of Elders Kenneth had Just left they had prayed for God’s protection over us on the way home. We were totally thanking and praising God when we got home. We felt that we had been miraculously delivered. Tonight wasn’t our time to go to heaven.

In Mark chapter 4 we see the disciples being miraculously delivered: That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, "Let us go over to the other side."
Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him.
A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. *
Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?"
He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!” (Mark 4:35-40)

*I wonder if the disciples thought, “OK, so this is the way we’re going to die!” 

By the way the next morning we couldn’t see any scratches on the car!