"I DON'T UNDERSTAND..."!!!

 That phrase ("I don't understand") is something that I have said to our HOLY GOD and FATHER a number of times in my life...                     

And now (By GOD'S GRACE!!!) I am beginning to understand what   GOD is trying to teach me---

To save time, I will list only 1 (one) personal experience that will         illustrate what HE is teaching me:

February 8 2020 I was driving from our church (in Clermont, GA.),      to our home (in Cleveland, Ga.).  It was snowing heavily---so I was      driving VERY SLOWLY and CAREFULLY: (keeping my speed at      30 - 35 miles per hour.  

When I neared Cleveland, I drove over the top of a hill---IMMEDIATELY I saw that a car was STOPPED in my lane, with NO  BRAKE LIGHTS, NOR EMERGENCY FLASHERS showing.  Because I was driving SLOWLY...I decided to try to drive AROUND the  vehicle--- but the SNOW on the highway caused my truck to collide into the rear of the other vehicle. THANK YOU LORD!!! Neither I,  nor the people in the other vehicle, were injured!!!

{Let me now list some "numbers" here to clarify this (True!!!) story}.   The small pick up truck that I was driving...we paid only $6,000 for    it.

OK, here it comes:  I said "LORD, I don't understand - I was driving  very SLOWLY and CAREFULLY, and I was praying that I would get  home safely---"I DON'T understand WHY YOU let this happen!".

     But HOLY GOD OUR FATHER first  answered the NEED:  the         Sheriff's officer who investigated the accident---He asked me to sit     in His car...and He gave me a ride (on this snowy day!) to my mail-     box at my home driveway...I ARRIVED ---TOTALLY SAFE!!!

     Over the next 5 months, my wife and I Prayed---Shopping for our      next vehicle for me to drive.  Because I did not know WHETHER my truck

could be repaired, or was it a Total Loss...We just gave the whole sit-  uation over to our LORD GOD, and we continued praying and shopping.

     A few weeks after the accident, our insurance agent called and told me to come to her office to pick up my insurance check...the total amount of the check was a little more than $11,000!!!  (Now remember---we had paid $6,000 for the truck!!!

     My wife and I continued praying and shopping for 5 months...until

we found the truck that GOD had planned for us.  Guess what the price was for GOD'S chosen truck for us.....It was $5,000!!!

     So remember, the old (wrecked) truck we paid $6,000 for it!   The

insurance paid to us $11,000+.....$11,000 Minus $6,000...Equals $5,000 (The cost of our "Replacement Truck".

     Please read with me the BIBLE verses that GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER is using to teach me in this:  (A).  "Be anxious

about nothing...by Prayer and THANKSGIVING let your requests be

known to GOD...(Philippians 4:6).  (B) "I KNOW the plans I HAVE for you...Plans for good..." (Jeremiah 29:11).  (C) I AM ABLE to do    things for you BEYOND what you could dream..." (Ephesians 3:20).

(D) "...cast your cares upon HIM, for HE cares for you." (1 Peter 5:7).

(E) "...the PEACE of GOD...SURPASSES UNDERSTANDING"!!!      (Philippians 4:7). 

     So now I say: "LORD, I do NOT NEED to understand, I am just going to trust YOU...". 

     HE IS FAITHFUL TO HIS WORD AND TO HIS RIGHTEOUS

CHARACTER...For HE CANNOT DENY HIMSELF." (2 Timothy

2:13/Amplified Bible).

     PRAY MUCH!!!  READ HIS WORD!!!  PRAISE, THANK, and

WORSHIP GOD FOR HIS FAITHFULNESS!!!!!!!

     S D G     Sole Deo Gloria     GLORY TO GOD ALONE!!!