Hi ya all
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Just wanted to share how the Lord showed mercy to me today. It might encourage someone or stimulate them to have faith in God for their day. I don't always have faith in God through trying circumstances but today, I chose to do so.
Early in the day I was stopped by a police car. Without realizing it I was running around without any lights at all in the back of my truck. I had known about the passenger lights being out but not about all of them.
Before the police stopped me I had prayed that the Lord's will would be done and that He would give me grace to speak just the right things to the policeman. Not to say too much (as I tend to do) and not too little. But just right. I accepted the possibility that I might get a ticket and waited for the policeman to come to my window.
He proceeded to ask me for my registration and other such things and then asked if he could look in the back of my truck - after explaining that I had no rear lights at all! I said I would rather he not look in the back, that I had nothing to hide, but that I would prefer for him to not look in the back. To which he replied the usual..."Well if you have nothing to hide why not?". Round and round we went with me standing my ground. Eventually I said he could look through the curtain behind my head which I rolled back...and that was enough to satisfy him.
He took the documents I gave him back to his car and then came back in a few minutes. He proceeded to explain to me that he could have my car towed (which would have left me without a home!) but instead ended up escorting me to the laundromat where I had been heading. Where he encouraged me to fix my lighting.
Unreal! I had absolutely no lights in the back. He said he had almost run into me. My driver's licence does not have the correct address on it. I had been waiting for more bills to arrive at my Suite/PO Box before changing my address so that I would have less potential hassles from the registery office. What I am doing IS legal but sometimes people that don't know that end up causing an uneccessary hassle.
Anyway he could have easily had my truck towed or even given me several tickets for no lights and wrong address on licence. Instead he and his co-driver escorted me to a laundromat.
UNREAL!
I am not saying that the Lord always makes up for our own lack of diligince in these types of things but to me it was near miraculous that I ended up with not even a ticket.
Upon getting to the laundromat I did my laundry and then proceeded to fix at least the driver's side lights. It was, as I suspected, a blown fuse. The passenger side I will work on tommorrow as it requires much more work (the wires got caught on something and got torn totally out).
I wish I could have written this a few hours ago as there was so much more that the Lord did for me today.
There was such incredible peace reigning in my heart today. I walked around as in a daze with nothing disturbing me for most of the day.
At one point I started to hear what I believed to be the Lord talking to me in my spirit. I know that might sound crazy but this has happened to me before.
As an example...when I got to the gym to take my daily shower I began to go down the road of frustration when I couldn't find my soap bars in the truck somewhere. It didn't seem like I would have enough with the nearly used up bar I had among my toiletries. I distinctly heard what I believe was the Lord telling me that what I had was enough. I kept looking a bit longer but not wanting to loose the peace I had been experiencing, I just entrusted what I heard and went in. The soap I had was indeed enough and even more than I needed!
While I was in the shower...this is a bit hard to explain...at one moment when I had my eyes closed and had been full of the Spirit and rejoicing in my relationship with the Lord...it was like He was standing right there with me. Just standing there. I did not want to open my eyes and loose His closeness.
That's just some of what happened to me today. I was just so incredibly full of peace. And the intimacy I felt with the Lord was incredible. Where He was my all. Where I was utterly and completely content in just having relationship with Him. Where my humble circumstances mattered not one iota to me. Where I didn't care. Where I had Him and where I was so utterly content with having just Him.
It was such a grand day! I just wanted to share that with you all.
Carlos
PS. The RLRG in my subject line stands for Real God, Real Life. A title that I think I may write a book around. Putting that in the title will help me find these threads which I hope to use as a basis for my book in the future.
PSS. Incidentally is it allowed to just post links to what I write on one of my websites? I really don't want to be writing my book as I go on this forum. Among other things it will be somewhat difficult to come back in a few months and cull all that I may write into book form. Much easier on my own web site. No big deal if I can't but I thought I would ask.
PSSS. I know that the Lord talking to me the way I described might sound crazy to some but I've experienced this before and the fruit has always been good. A building up of my faith, edifying others, witnessing wisdom, or otherwise. Sometimes what the Lord seems to speak to me seems real silly until after I apply it and then it might turn out to be really good. Such speaking to me has never gone against Scripture and has resulted in the Lord doing incredible things through me in times past.
I really don't know why I experience these things like I do sometimes. It may however have something to do with the fact that before many such times I have leaned on the blood of Christ afresh after a time of sinning (as I did last night in something - no, I did not go off and watch porn in case anyone is wondering in view of the thread I posted where the Lord disciplined me for such). The choice I had was to sin more and sink deeper or trust afresh in the blood of Christ and go on (which I did). It's at times like that, when I am leaning completely on Him afresh by faith, that I seem to experience these things more than at other times. Don't know. It's hard to put my finger on it. If it was up to me I would experience a relationship with the Lord like I did today, every day of my life but it's not something I can make come about just by wishing it. Obedience is defintely part of it. Choosing to trust God is definitely part of it too.
Anyway it's grand when this happens!
I wish I could have captured my day more adequately in words but it's difficult to do so.
One other thing that I thought about today. Our intimacy with the Lord is unique. No one will ever be able to know the full width and height and depth of what we experience of the Lord. He is the only one who is with us 24/7. He is the only one that knows us inside out. His Spirit and our spirit are a unique combination that causes us to experience Him uniquely. We can share things in words but no words can adequately describe the breadth and width of our individual intimacy with Him. It is a very real intimacy. Kinda like that experienced between a guy and a girl who really love each other. The way they look into each other's eyes type of thing. That's the closest I can come to describing it. It's not quite that of course but it's that type of closeness. It is absolutely mind boggling! And so ultimately fullfilling! To experience intimacy with the Lord. Like I said it's really hard to describe. I will have to spend time and write a book on it...I guess
. Hope you all don't think I have flipped out or anything.
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I enjoy reading them actually, but I know what you mean about feeling like you've said too much....I do that all the time!
