The Breath of God
March 16
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life.
Psalm 138:7
This was their most memorable vacation ever. Not because of where they’d gone or what they’d done…but because of a gust of wind; or as they put it, the breath of God. For etched in their memories was a moment of sheer terror followed by reverent awe as they watched God intervene.
Returning from vacation, the Compton’s attention was transfixed by the object hurtling through the air on a collision course with their vehicle. As if in slow motion, it flew toward them from across the median of the highway. In less time than it took to absorb the situation and react, the UFO struck the driver’s-side windshield pillar with a resounding WHACK! glancing off the car and coming to rest in the ditch. With a vise-like grip on the steering wheel, Jack slowly pulled the car off the road.
The police report would later state that the UFO, a car hood, had been ripped from a south-bound vehicle when its safety latch failed, resulting in its flight across the median, and ensuing collision with the Compton vehicle. The perceptive officer made the following entry: Tragedy was averted as the hood struck the steel doorpost of the Compton’s windshield instead of penetrating the windshield.
What his report did not say was that the hood would have come straight through the windshield, resulting in their probable injury or possible death, had it not been for a sudden gust of wind that altered its trajectory at the last minute, causing it to glance off the doorpost instead.
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God, at times, shelters and protects us by altering injurious or destructive circumstances. And for the most part we have no knowledge of such events, neither knowing when nor how often He has sent angels, or intervened personally on our behalf to spare us injury, death, or tribulation. Possessing such knowledge would astonish, or worse, make us prideful.
In verse 6 of today’s text David speaks of God’s favoring the humble and His disdain for the proud. It is for the repression of our ego, and therefore our welfare, that such knowledge is withheld.
Prayer
“I thank You for Your protection, Loving Father, and for helping me remain humble by not allowing me to know how often You do so. Amen.”
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