A lesson in God’s faithfulness and irony

I was walking and praying today and I thought of something that I had not realized before today. A few months ago my fiancee and I were on our way to church when my car started to smoke really bad. Shortly after parking, the car burst into flames and the police and firefighters were on the scene in minutes. After I wrestled through this whole scenario I realized how faithful God was to us that the car did not burst into flames while we were still driving it. But more subtle than this display of God’s faithfulness and provision was something that happened regarding this incident a couple months later.

Both my fiancee and I were working at the time our car went up in flames so we needed to find a car very quickly. After spending countless hours looking on Craigslist and other posting type sites we had set out to figure out what we were going to do. The same day we were trying to figure out what to do, one of our friend’s on campus approached us and asked us if we needed to borrow his car for the year. My fiancee and I could not believe what we were hearing and definitely took our friends offer. Though we now had a car for the school year, the reality that we needed to find our own car was still upon us, so we continued to look and in that time we waited to see what God might do. A constant joke between my fiancee and I at this time was maybe someone will give us a car or will give us a car for like $100 dollars. Here’s where the irony comes in… A couple months later the owner of the car asked us if we wanted to buy the car he had let us borrow for… $100 dollars. I hadn’t really thought much about this until my fiancee brought it up in conversation today. It is times like this where I have a hard time doubting that God cares about our lives. There are just way too many coincidences for it not to have some sort of orchestration.

In the place in life that I am right now and even where our world collectively is, it is so important for us to remember God’s faithfulness and to lose sight of this brings a lot of anxiety that we could avoid had we just remembered that God is in control. Ps. 20:7 says “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”