Blessing in Disguise

When I was home for Thanksgiving break I got in a car accident. I was on my way to playing soccer with my friends and a lady ran a red light and T-boned my car(My brother and I shared the car). Thankfully I was not injured except to cuts on the inside of my wrists kinda near the area where the nails went through Christ's hands(weird huh?) Anyways, the car was totalled and so I had to share one of my parent's cars with my brother and I. We went back to school and took one car with us and one week later the same thing happened to my brother and that car was totalled so we went from 3 cars to 1 car in the matter of 2 weeks. At first i was really distraught because the other car was stick shift, which i do not know how to drive, and i was annoyed because I thought that I had no way to get around during my month long Christmas break. God had different plans.

It worked out that one of my friends, would end up giving me a lot of rides and i mean A LOT of rides. It was really generous of him but the most amazing thing was how close were drew because of always being in the car with each other. Almost every night we hung out he would give me a ride home and we would pull up in front of my house at 12:00ish but then just talked about God, Jesus and the Bible till 2:00 in the morning!!! It was so amazing and these talks are what kept me encouraged and on fire during Christmas break. We even moved into keeping each other accountable with certain friends we hang out with and witnessing. I was so thankful for these great talks we had for it made us much closer friends and also drew us both closer to Christ. Talk about iron sharpening iron!

Anyways, I went back to school and was telling my roommate about the amazing break I had and how encouraged I was by these great discussions my friend and I had. It wasn't till after I told my roommate my story that I realized I would have never had these talks with my friend if it wasn't for the two car accidents. For the first time I saw God's plan come full circle and I can say that I was truly thankful that those two car accidents occured. It made me realize that we all need to trust in God more especially during difficult times for we can not also see the end of the road or the purpose of the trial or temptation but we need to trust that God will guide us through and work things together according to His plan. This also ties in to being more 'Future Focused' and not focusing on the "here and now" but more on the end result and the "then and there"All in all, I can say that God works in mysterious ways and the two car accidents definetly served to be a 'Blessing in Disguise'