Faith Crashing

My old job had a simple 7 mile commute by car. Not a very exciting commute, but a stretch of one road winding through a rural landscape of green fields and rolling hillside. I never moved out of fourth gear, hardly ever had to overtake another vehicle and apart from the day a telegraph pole had landed across the road - never saw anything interesting.

One day however, everyone else got to see something spectacular when that road was closed. By two cars. One of which was mine.

All I saw was:

1) a car on the wrong side of the road, travelling sideways
2) my airbag
3) two ambulances
4) one paramedic vehicle
5) two off duty nurses running towards me
6) three police cars
7) some nice policemen and paramedics
8) a recovery vehicle
9) rubberneckers galore

As two old farmers stood staring at my car while the emergency services did their thing, I walked over and broke into their conversation - they could not believe that I was the driver. They looked at my car, looked at me (bruised, scratched, clothes ripped, massively shocked but still standing) and could not believe what they saw. One even said that "someone up there must be looking after me" or some such comment.

This looks like it will be the kind of blog post that says how amazing God is, as I survived what was a hideous accident. And YES, God is amazing, I could have died. The recovery truck driver regaled me with some gruesome tales, none of which were the most tactful of conversations for someone who has just had a car accident.

But this blog post is about the detail.

What followed was part 2 of the nightmare - finding out to my total shock and dismay, that my car was not registered with all the right paperwork. I had given someone else the responsibility to do it, when it was actually mine.

One day we are all going to die. The buck stops there. With you.

I had milliseconds of knowing I was about to be in that accident before I was in it. I didn't say to myself "oh dear I hope all the paperwork for the car is in order". Thinking about the afterlife options weren't a default setting either. I didn't think about anything really. Just sort of processed disbelief.

You need to get your paperwork in order ahead of  time. Think things through beforehand. There are beliefs, faiths, options. You need to know what they are. Your time will come, just like everyone else.

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

Jesus geeks should know these verses off by heart but are from John 10:10 & 3:16

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