SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH
EASTER SHOWS JESUS CAN RESCUE US AND RESTORE US!
Article by Pastor Philip Nissley,
New Hope Assembly of God, Taylor, MI
her driver's side window then instantly reached inside and opened the door. Jennifer in fright slid to the other side of the car and began to kick the man, bloodying his nose and mouth. Finally, he got a grip on her legs and began to pull her from the car.
Jennifer repeatedly hit the man as he put his arms around her waist and carried her about forty feet from the car. Suddenly he put her down in a standing position and said, "Don't be afraid". But Jennifer was terrified and quickly moved from him until she backed into a fence, screaming, "Let me alone. Go away." At that the man turned and walked slowly down the street as Jennifer slid to the ground trembling. Then the ground began to shake with deafening noise coming at her. In an instant she saw it. A train roared past a few feet from where she sat, crashed into her car and dragged it scraping and banging into the darkness. It was then she realized...God had answered her prayer! The man he sent, knew about the approaching train. He understood the life-threatening situation she was in and was trying to save her.
"I can't believe it," she screamed" as she banged her hands on the steering wheel. Jennifer had put off getting gas and now was stranded in the dark in a bad section of town, having used up all her gas and now drained the battery by trying to restart her car. In the fog, as she looked anxiously through the darkness, she saw there was no telephone or service station just the outlines of large warehouses and railroad tracks.
Jennifer had not prayed in years, but she now cried to God for out a taxi or police car to drive by. Then she saw a large man coming down the street straight at her…and her hair stood up on her neck. She locked her doors, slid down into her seat, and held her breath. "Perhaps he will pass by" she prayed, when suddenly he tapped the glass. Hysterically she screamed at the top of her lungs "Get away. Leave me alone" as he kept tapping the windows as he raced around the car, yelling something she couldn't hear with all her screaming and blowing the horn.
Then she saw him pick up a long thick board amid her screaming and broke