Sometimes we want to get upset when God interrupts our plans. It could have been that way for us today. We were on the way to English class in Barranca. We are traveling down the highway and suddenly the car's engine dies. Doug directs the car to the side of the road. He looks under the hood. We can't figure out why it would stop running. We have plenty of gas.
He looks up and sees that the car broke down right in front of a shade tree mechanic shop. Across the street is Pollo Titan, up the street a fruit stand and Esso gas station. We go visit with the lead mechanic of the shop and he comes with us to the car. These young men in the photo push the car off the road into the drove of the shop. Another mechanic goes and brings us chairs and places them under the shade tree out of the way of traffic. We begin to watch. We are thanking God for letting us break down here and not out on the highway to Barranca. We are thanking God for the shade. We are relaxing and watching God at work.
We see the head mechanic take a swig of some kind of liquid from a used soda bottle and then spit it on the the part he is testing. There's something you don't see every day! I was shaking my head and smiling. It was determined it is a fuel pump/part that isn't working properly. They need $200 pesos for a gasoline from the gas station up the road. They just happen to have the needed part in the shop. I just happened to have with me on this day $30 in US dollars for a wifi bill, and $1900 pesos. I don't usually travel with this much cash on me and most always with no more than a few hundred pesos. We hope I have enough to pay the mechanics.
Do you see God in all this yet? We sure were seeing Him. The car broke down in front of a mechanic shop. They were busy but not too busy for the Americanos who had a car problem. In less than an hour, the car is fixed and running. Now for the bill. $2000 pesos. That is roughly $44 US dollars.
He looks up and sees that the car broke down right in front of a shade tree mechanic shop. Across the street is Pollo Titan, up the street a fruit stand and Esso gas station. We go visit with the lead mechanic of the shop and he comes with us to the car. These young men in the photo push the car off the road into the drove of the shop. Another mechanic goes and brings us chairs and places them under the shade tree out of the way of traffic. We begin to watch. We are thanking God for letting us break down here and not out on the highway to Barranca. We are thanking God for the shade. We are relaxing and watching God at work.
We see the head mechanic take a swig of some kind of liquid from a used soda bottle and then spit it on the the part he is testing. There's something you don't see every day! I was shaking my head and smiling. It was determined it is a fuel pump/part that isn't working properly. They need $200 pesos for a gasoline from the gas station up the road. They just happen to have the needed part in the shop. I just happened to have with me on this day $30 in US dollars for a wifi bill, and $1900 pesos. I don't usually travel with this much cash on me and most always with no more than a few hundred pesos. We hope I have enough to pay the mechanics.
Do you see God in all this yet? We sure were seeing Him. The car broke down in front of a mechanic shop. They were busy but not too busy for the Americanos who had a car problem. In less than an hour, the car is fixed and running. Now for the bill. $2000 pesos. That is roughly $44 US dollars.
We may have missed the morning English class, but we made a new friend today. He is wearing the lighter shirt in the photo and he was gifted 50 pesos today for being a runner to get the gasoline. We left out with a functioning vehicle, $10 in US and $500 pesos. God showed up. It may not have been our plan, but it was His plan. We knew this was going to be a God appointment when it happened and we saw all the evidence pointing to it. God received glory. He provided for a young man. Doug, our friend, gets to teach his afternoon class. Doug and I had a shady rest and even made it back in time for lunch.
You may not believe in God, but this is proof He cares, He provides, and He shows up in a perfect way right on time ... and pays attention to the details, such as how much should be in a wallet, before it is needed. I find it way easier to believe there is a God, than to spend all the time and effort to say there isn't. We hope you will make time to see a God appointment in your day.
You may not believe in God, but this is proof He cares, He provides, and He shows up in a perfect way right on time ... and pays attention to the details, such as how much should be in a wallet, before it is needed. I find it way easier to believe there is a God, than to spend all the time and effort to say there isn't. We hope you will make time to see a God appointment in your day.
