Years ago, my fiancé and I were on our way to a pressing engagement one snowy afternoon. However, when we attempted to get into his Acadian, we discovered he had locked the keys inside the vehicle.
As he began to work at the window with a coat hanger, I got it into my head that we could use my parents' car, nicely parked in the double stall garage. There was one small obstacle. My financé's car was parked directly behind my parents' Honda accord.
Any normal person would likely have tried to back the car out and around his vehicle. That didn't even occur to me. I began manoeuvring a 3-point turn that had more points than a passionate preacher.
When my financé looked up from his attempts to break in to his own car, my vehicle was sideways in the garage!
It would take a doctorate in English studies to adequately describe the look on his face.
Had I asked him how to set the Honda free, he would have stated a much more appropriate plan of action. Sometimes we need another perspective to see our way through difficult situations. The stories of the persecuted Church bring a point of view we in the West may never have considered.
During VOM’s October 2015 West Coast receptions, Joseph Hovsepian will be sharing how the Lord freed his "vehicle" out of the walls of unforgiveness. His journey may be just the perspective you need to hear to keep you from ending up sideways in the garage.
