Did you see what didn't just happen?, Part 3

David Allen Brown

Did you see what didn't just happen?

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We have ALL had close calls. So many in fact that if I ask you to quickly name 5 times in your life that you could have been killed or seriously injured in some sort of a close call, that you wouldn’t even be able to tell me 2 of them right off of the top of your head because they happen more often than we want to think about. Well... think about it next time.


Satan wants us to take these moments for granted. He calls them “luck” or “close calls” or something similar. Satan is big into “justification “ as well. He gets some good mileage from that deception. He is always getting us and those around us to think of these moments as “coincidence” . He wants to create doubt in our minds . Enough doubt to say. That wasn’t divine intervention. That was just coincidence...a lucky break.


At best I hear people say” Wow, your guardian angel sure was watching out over you today when in fact, it was God saving your life or the life of a loved one.


Why is it that we question God as to why He didn’t stop something from happening when it does happen? Why would we not trust God and let Satan grab the upper hand? Satan knows that without faith we won’t get anywhere with God so He makes sure that he rattles our cages whenever and wherever he can. Doubt is a weapon, and it is a very effective one at that.


We don’t notice know when God makes us turn right and not left. We don’t notice it when he keeps a ladder from falling over or a car from sliding out of control and killing someone we love. Thank God for what didn’t just happen.


Every day God prevents tragedy. He saves us from untold horrors and yet we never notice, because they never happened. It rains in Southern California and saturates the ground. Mountainsides become unstable, and mudslides take homes and lives. Why does a building collapse happen this week with ten people in the building? It didn't happen the week before when there were over 1000 people in the same building? What a lucky break huh? WRONG!


What we do notice is when God doesn’t save someone or He doesn’t prevent something bad from happening. It’s always the same question, “Why God? Why?”

I noticed it when my Dad died on a plane, as he flew off for his work in Fort Lauderdale on that Monday morning in May of 1988. If he had gone on to live another 30 years, would I have ever known that God had spared him? No, how could I?


I would have just gone about my life and assumed that everything had happened as it should have, and I never would have known the difference. Look around you. Everybody you love, everybody you know is here by the grace of God. Be thankful, and tomorrow morning when you wake up, don’t forget that God holds your life in the palm of His hand. Thank God every night for what didn’t happen that day!

God Bless, David Allen Brown