Unexpected Grace

I’m constantly amazed by how God teaches and tests us. I wrote a paper that I I meant to post here but apparently I haven’t It was about what God did for me through an accident that I had last Christmas. I will get this posted shortly, but God tested me through that incident and taught me so much about myself and His grace. Today He tested me again. I pulled into the church parking lot and as I was getting out I notice something on my tire. It was glinting. I wondered if it was water to I touched it and it was the metal belt from inside the tire. This is bad. I need to get the tires replaced ASAP.

Last time I took my car into the dealership for an oil change I ask to setup an appointment to have the tires replace. The guy asked why, my tires looked good. I told him that last time I was there that the tech told me that the tires would need to be replaced soon. So naturally I was looking to get it in for that service. He told me that I should just get the tires rotated and I’ll be fine. Apparently that is not the case.

So today I need to talk to some people, but we are going to have to drop off the car at the shop to get the work done. I am a rather emotional person and I immediately began to get anxious and worry about the situation. After I got settled in at church I found a quiet place to hide and talk to God. As I prayed the Lord showed me that I shouldn’t be looking at it from the point of view that this terrible thing is happening to me, but rather God showed me, in His grace, that there is a problem and now I can fix it before it becomes a problem rather than dealing with a tire shredding on the highway and damaging the car and potentially damaging me.

It is interesting to me that sometimes God’s grace doesn’t always look like what we expect. Sometimes we totally miss His grace in our everyday situations.

God is good.