"Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His loving kindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;"
Deuteronomy 7:9
God cannot lie. He can never make a error. All of His promises are Yes and Amen.
Thinking back on my life and all that I've done, I can't help but to think that God has been more than faithful to me.
Several times I have gone and done my own thing and He has brought me back unscratched when I didn't deserve it.
I remember a time when I was in Maryland visiting a friend for the holidays and we got this idiotic notion to race our cars on the Beltway. I had a jet black, Mercury Mystique and my friend was driving a blue Acura Integra.
Everything was fine in the begining. We both got up to about 100 mph. Looking down at the speedometer I saw we were about to hit 100 mph. I'm in the lead now and thinking highly of myself saying, "Who said Fords couldn't go fast!"
Then about ¼ mile later I saw realized that I began to really pull away. Rather my friend slowed down.
You see, he knew something very important that I didn't know.
There was a sharp turn approaching and if I did not slow my car down to at least 50 mph I would be in jeopardy of having a awful accident.
What would you do in this situation? You slam on the breaks of course. I didn't slow down in time.
As I am smashing as hard as I can on the break peddle a trying to maneuver the car so that I don't collide with any other car my car begins to spin out of control. Mind you there are three other people in the car with me all of whom which thought racing was a good idea as well but were now taking back their position.
Everything seemed to go in slow motion, we were spinning out of control, then we weren't.
When it was over I looked outside of my driver's side window and saw a 3 ½ foot yellow pole. I was about an inch from having an intimate connection with it.
I'd like to say that I by no means raced my car again but I can't. I'd like to say that I was always on good behavior from that point on but that is not true either. I can only say that that night God saved my life; because of His loving kindness and His tender mercies toward me and not the other way around. It was for His name sake that we were spared that night so that today I could tell you how good He is and prove it!
You can love Him because He gives you money. You can love Him because He healed your body. All those reasons are great but this is why I love Him. Because He's faithful to me.
After reading about Josiah's experience go to his website and sign in at http://www.josiahruff.com there you will be able to LISTEN to "Faithful" and all the other awesome songs Josiah writes.
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