I recently experienced God's hand in a very personal way as he intervened to prevent me from making an accident. I was behind a truck waiting for the traffic light to turn green. As soon as the light turned green the truck started moving forward. I put my foot on the accelerator to move forward, but to my surprise the vehicle stalled. Then I saw that the truck in front of me also stalled. This all happened within a split second! I immediately realized that the stalling of my vehicle prevented me from crashing into the truck.

He was the happiest man on earth. He was about to marry his dream girl. Unfortunately she had other plans and dumped him for his cousin. The young man was shattered and very angry. His trust in women took a very deep dive. Will he ever recover? Fortunately, since he is only a character in a soap opera, he should recover after a week or so? However, consequences in real life just tend to be a lot more serious. How does one recover?

I was one of probably millions of people that would read the Bible and would say, "What's new? " or would listen to a sermon and say, "I heard that before?". The Bible became merely a guideline on how to live, what to do and what not to do. I believed and still do that the Bible is the best living guide you can buy. As with most guides though it ends up on a shelve somewhere and is only read when needed.

My attitude towards the Bible further deteriorated when I learned that there are differences between the hundreds of Bible translations. One serious difference I can recall is that in the old testament the word "hell" is used 28 times in the Modern King James translation and 0 times in the Afrikaans translation. Why the differences? The only acceptable explanation for me was that the Bible was interpreted instead of directly translated from the original Hebrew and Greek. Gracefully there are a few translations that has been literally translated from the original Greek and Hebrew scriptures. Obviously, I wanted to read as close as I could to the original scriptures and therefore bought a Young's Literal translation. However, reading the Bible became an exercise of comparing different translations. Then it all changed.

I am on a never-ending personal journey with God to discover more and more of His love; love that exceeds all knowledge. Since God is in me, I experience His love, which is rooted and founded in me. (Ef 3:17) Since I am in God, He feels all my love, all my joy, all my sadness, all my hurts, all my anger and all my fears. He is both my father and friend. I am really only beginning to discover the vastness of His love.

There are times though that He just feels a bit distant. Times, when I seem to revert to an old habit of worrying about my circumstances and future. Times, when I am just not sure why I think or feel the way I do. Times, when I say or do things that are detrimental to myself or others. Then there is always the glorious time when God reveals to me the cause of all the undesirable times. I recently had such an experience.