There will be times in your life that you knew that God was there.  The intangible becomes tangible. I remember a time that happened in my life.  I was in the back of a service when I felt like God told me to give my car away.  I thought, “Why would I give my car away?”  My good friend Bil, Pastor of Bay Area Fellowship, asked us some of the staff to come up and pray with some of the people in the front of the service.  I came up and just stood with another pastor while he prayed.  I stood there and for some reason tears started to flow down my face.  And there was the moment, the moment where I opened my eyes for just a second.  I saw a single tear fall to the floor.  The tear fell like any other tear, but to me it was in slow motion, it took forever to reach the floor, somehow, light shined on it perfectly.  We got done praying, I reached into my pocket, and gave the keys to my car away.  Some close people around me knew I gave the car away.  The people I had given the car to were recovering drug addicts, they had no money, they had no place to stay, they were there at the service for the first time.  I gave them that car and they were so excited about the life changes they were going to make.  They came to the service a couple more weekends and then I got a phone call from them saying that they needed money and that they would repay me.  I told them that I would give them the money, so I met them and gave them the money, and never saw them again.   I have only told this story a couple of times, and most say “I can’t believe they just left.”  But to me, it wasn’t about that they left, it was about that tear drop.  It was all about that tear drop.  I often wonder (like tonight I can’t sleep) what that tear drop meant.  Maybe it was the pain that they had endured.  Maybe it was a tear of happiness.  Maybe it was God’s grace on them and all of us.  I don’t know.  I do know that God was there in that moment.  God will do something in your life so that you can just see that one tear drop. 

Posted Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 12:13 am
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