God prepares you in His Time

My heart has been quite heavily laden for a few days last week. The reason being I broke someone's rear headlights cover while attempting to park at St Luke's church in Woodvale last wednesday morning. I would like to think that I'm a very steady and cautious driver but this incident rattled my confidence for a good two days...

At that instance, I contemplated just leaving the scene but my conscience dragged me back. I felt that the right thing to do was to leave a note to offer to cover the repairs but the devil was playing all kinds of tricks with me. Thoughts of 'You're already so financially tight, I don't think you want to burn another hole in your pocket' and 'There's no one in the car, they wouldn't know it's you' were running through my head and I was so tempted to give in to them.

I finally decided to clip a note on the rear windscreen of the car and throughout the day I felt utterly down and out, praying that no one would call me back and that this whole nightmare would just fade into obscurity. 4 days passed and no calls came through and I was so certain that God has worked his miracle with the car owner or some gush of wind blew the note away. I was so thankful.

However, this morning I received an unsuspecting call from who else but the owner of the car. She said that she would let me know the cost of the repairs once she got it checked. Strangely, I did not feel very stressed that I would have to pay for the consequences of my actions but took it all in my stride instead. I think God has prepared me in His Time to handle this situation and truely I thank God for giving me the time, without which I'm sure I would be very much badly affected by it for a long while.

I pray and hope that the repair cost would be managable and that He will continue to prepare me for what is in store for me, the good and the bad here Down Under.

Thank you God for your grace and may we experience your saving help in your time. Amen.