“And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38, 39 NLT)
As we toured all over the west coast of the US, we saw everyday the amazing love of God in how he provided what we asked for in motel rooms and restaurants. It got to the point, I would say,
“Father, we need wi-fi to book our hotel room.” Of course a few minutes later we would find
public wi-fi! A famous Bible teacher once said, “We should expect God to do these things for us.
Would we not do them for our children whom we love dearly?”
Sunday morning in Redding, CA we are heading to church, Bethel of course. We had been there the year before so “thought” we knew where we were going. We are heading north on I5 as it is on the north end of the city when my husband says, “I believe I just missed the exit. We will go to the next one and turn around.” We were running late as it was, and we really couldn’t afford to be screwing up on directions so I started to pray. “Father, please give us someone who can tell us how to get to Bethel as we don’t seem to know where we are going.” Now, how long does it take to go from one exit to the next on an interstate? Not very long. We reach the next exit, turn left to go over the interstate and get to a set of lights before we can turn back to get on the interstate heading south.
As we are sitting at the lights, there is a CHP car off to our right. We are turning left so when the light turns green, we go. As we start down the ramp to the interstate, all of a sudden the CHP car is behind us with the lights flashing and gives a bleep of his siren. My husbands says to me, “What is he pulling us over for? I haven’t done anything wrong.” Of course we stop and he gets out off his car and comes over to us on the right side. He is telling us that we made an illegal turn as there is no left turn on to the interstate – we needed to turn right. To this day, we did not see the sign in our rush to get to church. Now this is a witness to a police officer! He takes down my husband’s licence number on a little tablet he had in his hand and he is asking all sorts of questions about us riding on a bike, how long etc. Certainly, we were not about to argue with the law so we are polite realizing that he is only doing his job. After he lectures my husband for a few minutes, he says, “Where are going?” Well, this is a little embarrassing but my husband says, “Bethel” He says, “Oh, you just go down this ramp carefully, get on the interstate and get off at the next exit.”
He gave us all the directions we needed, told us to have a good day and got in his car. He followed us down the ramp to make sure we got on the interstate safely and off he went! All we could do was sit there, thank God for this nice young officer and laugh! That young guy got blessed that day as I prayed protection over him, and that he would have the best shift he has had in along time! I asked God for help and I got it! God will use whoever he can to help his people even in the form of a CHP officer, when you think you are in trouble! I keep wondering, was he an angel watching over us when we were not paying attention like we needed to??
By the way, we still got to church on time!
“He will not allow your foot to slip or to be moved; He Who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand [the side not carrying a shield]. The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all evil; He will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.” (Psalm 121:3-8 AMP)
How God Loves Us 