Thinking back to one day in 1977 I remember I took the
same route to work everyday, each morning the traffic was busy and they were
working on a new over pass for the highway near my home. Many of my friends
would stop by my home each day after work and we would share and speak and just
talk about how God was changing my life.
I was a new believer but attending church almost every night and seeking Gods’
truth for me and my family. We had many friends and we shared with all who came
and visited.
God became the center point of all our conversations and life. Some friends
accepted this from me but they continued to live their life with parties and the
things that happened at that time.
One day as I was coming home and near the over pass where the
construction work was happening, traffic was all jammed up because of a serious
accident. As I passed by I saw a car that had been totally crushed by a semi
that had problems with the over pass construction. Later that night I learned
that it was a friends wife, she was minding her own
business and coming home from work when out of know where this truck
flipped on top of her car crushing her to death. I felt so sad because she would
often come to our home but never accepted Christ. All she had to do is live in
accordance to His ways and die to self and what she wanted from life and her
career. She never had a chance to further anything.
She left a wonderful little girl and later that year Dave took his
own life by hanging himself over the closet door in his bedroom. He thought that
his daughter would have insurance money not knowing they don't pay on suicide.
Such tragedy, but more so is they are not with God and will never be with Him or
their daughter who is a wonderful young Christian lady today.
Gods’ time is not our time; Gods’ ways are not our ways.
Like a thief, He never tells you when He comes to rob you of your riches.
Ga ha' Halftown