My ways are not your ways…

AS it happens once in a while an important member of our life dies. A few days ago my car died out after many years of service. Its when you don’t have one that you realize how important a car really is. So I started to go “car hunting” on the net. Of course I prayed about it and asked Gods guidance. After spending many hours (there are thousands to chose from) and thinking of a budget for this expense I was ready. One one side was my flesh and on the other was my logic. I saw this beautiful old BMW (198 and the price was inside my budget. The owned was also a “seller” without a fight his price went down and down… he needed the money to go back to school. I thought “why not” its not worth more than another second hand car anyways and I never ever had a BMW! On the other side there was my logic. Don’t buy it, what you need is a good diesel engin with all the milage you do. You’ll save a ton of money per year. At the wednesday night prayer meeting I showed the BMW to a friend, who really was God sent and he told me how he had owned one and explained to me the expenses, etc… He also pointed out that he wondered WHY I would want to buy it. What were my motives, my real ones! Well that struck a chord and I realized that it was more coveting than anything else. So I told him he was right and opted for the diesel. I went to check it out with my wife and it was a beauty but after trying it I didn’t really feel good about it. There was something wrong…. so I just said to myself: “That’s not for me.” So we went back home and once again I started looking on the net. What I didn’t know was that God was also in the picture and was working for me. My eyes fell upon this other car that had just been posted the same day. Great make, low millage and low price. So I called and made a rendez-vous for the next morning. Off we went and this time the car was just great. What was even better was that we had the opportunity to speak to the person selling it and he was very interested in the good news of the Gospel. He promised to come to hear what I had to say at church in a few weeks. You see although my flesh was disapointed with not having the BMW and my logic about not having the diesel, my spirit was very happy to see God work in my life and give me what I really needed and also bring the message of salvation to this man. My ways are not your ways says the Lord… Isaiah 55:8,9