YOUR DOSE OF HOPE

The following STATEMENT is probably one of the most heard. The question is not whether you know it or not, it is about whether or not you really believe it.

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. Romans 8:28

Would you also believe it when your world has been turned upside down? May this testimony give you hope.

When I was a student in Scotland, I stayed in a village called Grantully, approx 70 minutes from the College I was attending in Dundee. On college days I used to leave the house at around 4.30am, every morning to miss the traffic, so I ended up in Dundee at no later than 6am. Since college only started at 9am, I parked in front of Tesco (a supermarket group in the UK) and pushed my car seat down to sleep for another 2,5 hours.

What a daft thing to do! Yes it sounds daft, doesn’t it? I drove an oldish green Fiat Punto and it’s cooling fan stopped working, so whenever I got caught up in traffic the temperature gage would start climbing rapidly into the red, with smoke usually following soon after. It is not a pretty picture. I always had to carry a couple of liters of water for emergencies. At one stage I did try to fix it, but as a poor student I bought a fan from the scrap yard and installed it myself. It worked for a month then it also died.

On another semester, I had one half-day class each week that only started after lunch and that had less traffic. Well apart form this single day…

As I was over half way towards Dundee, thanks to the beloved road works the traffic queued up for miles. I knew I had some problems. I had this huge truck in front of me obscuring my view, so I did not have a clue how long this queue is plus the truck’s tires and the wet road left a “nice” collage on my window.

My temperature gage was on the brink of stepping into the red zone with smoke starting to come out of the bonnet. The tension that was building up inside me dropped with half a bar, to some relieve, when I saw a lay-by approaching where I could pull of the road and stop.

The moment I got of the road I escaped death.

The truck that was in front of me had its back demolished by a similar size truck, unable to stop in time.

Wow! I still get goose bumps thinking about it. Has it not been for the imperfection of my car, for the very same thing I saw being a problem, I would have been crushed! And this email would not have been written. My God according to His purpose used that very same problem for my good.

Whatever the imperfection you might have, problem you might be facing, your Creator is more than able to use it for the good of those who love Him, believe it!

Instead of looking at the mountain of your problem, praise God and look out for when He turns the problem into perfection.