For the most recent long weekend, we thought we will go on a trip to some place outside Houston. Therefore, we set out for Austin early Saturday morning. After a long and full day, my husband suddenly had this inspiration to go not home, but to San Antonio!!! So we drove to San Antonio only to find no room to stay :) Having enquired in about six or seven inns we thought we could afford, and being told they were all full for the weekend, we decided to drive back home to Houston. About 30 miles into the drive, my husband began to feel sleepy and tired from having driven all day. So we stopped at the Rest Area that we luckily came upon in about five minutes, and I started to drive. About an hour into the drive, there was a fog starting to come on, and I turned on my windshield wipers. All of a sudden, out of nowhere came an egg and smashed right onto the front of the car and splattered over the windshield!
Now about a little more than a year ago, while in conversation, one of my friends told me that if one were driving on lonely highways, and if someone were to throw an egg at the car, one should just keep driving, and not turn on the wipers to clear the egg, or attempt to wash it away since this would make the egg spread all over the windshield and limit visibility to such an extent that we will be forced to stop. She said that this was a method used by some people to stop cars on lonely highways to rob them.
As soon as the egg hit the car and I saw the splatter, this whole conversation came rushing to my mind. I immediately turned off my wipers and kept driving. I would rather squint through the fog than turn on the wipers!
We reached home that day with no further incidents and went to bed. The next morning, when my husband and I went to inspect the car, we saw that the egg had smashed not onto the windshield but onto the car's bonnet. This had in fact prevented the egg from splashing too much over the windshield.
Thinking over this incident made me understand anew, the promise of God I have quoted as the title of my post. When God promises something, He will never go back on any of His promises. I did not know what was waiting for me on the highway. I did not even know that that conversation I had had two years ago would stay in my mind and help me to handle the situation. This proves to me, once again, that nothing is a coincidence in the life of a child of God. We may not always know why certain things happen or what importance there is to certain conversations, but everything is part of a bigger plan. As the Bible says, He knows the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10).
This reinforced to me a very valuable lesson I learnt long back - and which is what I want to tell you all today - trust in the Lord and know that everything has a purpose in your life. You may not see it right now, but even the smallest things in your life are ordained by God. And always, He does all things for our good.
