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Thursday, July 29, 2004
His hand is upon me
Mood:
 special
The other day, I was having car trouble. You know the normal thing that happens to cars. It wouldn't start. So the tow truck guy charges it and it's taken to a shop, I'm told I need a new battery. I get a second opinion. I buy a new battery. While there, I ask them to check the brakes. They tell me that I need new front brakes, yet there is still pad. Needing some advice, I call my dad. He sends me to my Uncle, the man who knows anything and everythign about cars. Mean time, the shop puts the car back together in good time. So I go to my uncle, he says, he takes the tires off and looks at them without taken them apart, and says that they are ok for now, but they will need to be changed. Let's get the brakes. So we order the brakes. When they came in, my uncle put the brakes on, and while he at it he checked the rear brakes. They were fine. But he did notice that the caliper in the front brakes was twisted. He fixed it. But he let my dad (his brother) know that the caliper got twisted, and he was upset, because whoever put the caliper back on, put it on wrong. Not only that, had it gone unchecked it could have gone to brake failure, and he was surprised that it there hadn't been brake failure in the last two weeks while it was driven by me, since the last time the shop looked at my brakes. In short, when he told me about it, he also told me that the last time they were taken apart they were put together wrong. That there should have been brake failure because there was no brake fluid getting to the brakes while I drove it prior to him fixing it. I sat there and thought about the time I braked to not hit a car, and instead hit the curb to help me brake. I had been braking. I thought about Jabez, and how God answered his simple prayer to place his hand upon him. I thought about how I pray the same, and how God is answering my prayers. I thought about how blessed I am to be His child and protected by his hand. His hand is upon me, protecting me from evil, and keeping me from pain. He is surely alive and well. God protects me. I am Blessed because of it. :) (see I Chronicles 4:9-10.)
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