John 12:40 - Their eyes are blinded, their hearts are hardened, so that they wouldn’t see with
their eyes and perceive with their hearts, and turn to me, God, so I could heal
them.
As I was driving home from work (which is a community
college), I was feeling very stressed and grumpy. It’s finals time and my job is to oversee
tests for many students. A winter storm
was moving in and students were antsy to get home to families while still
wanting to get their testing in. I
simply wanted to make it home alive since I lived further out than any of them!
I even remember thinking to myself while waiting for the last woman to finish
up, “An accident becomes more imminent every second I sit here, lady. Hurry it up, I want to live!” My eyes were burning a huge hole in the back
of her head. I myself was losing
patience just as much as the students around me who were stressing me out. As I got in my car to leave, my stomach was
in knots. Knuckles white against the
steering wheel, I pull on to the freeway to head the frightening way home. It was very difficult to see through my
windshield front or back because there was this thick grime covering the glass. Nothing would wash it off! My response? “Oh this is just great. Add this to the list. I can’t see and I’m going to slide off the
road and die.” While I was grumbling out loud to myself thick snowflakes began
to fall instead of the little ice pellets—it was breathtaking. As it fell, I had to turn on my wipers in
order to see the little bit I could through the grime. To my surprise, after trying everything to
get it cleaned off, the snow wiped my windshield clean and I could see clearly
again. I felt God figuratively rubbing
my shoulders at that point as the peaceful snow fell, washing my grumpiness
away. It’s funny how God can use the
strangest things to make us stop and realize that He’s there wanting to wash it
all away. Life is hard but we don’t have
to let it harden us. Our windshields are
dirty but we don’t have to let them blind us.
Proverbs 28:14 - Blessed
is the one who fears the Lord always, but whoever hardens
his heart will fall into calamity.
