Chose ye this day

I picked up a young lady at the Marriott library on the University of Utah campus. I had to wait for a long time but finally she came running out she got in the car. She asked me what I did for a living.

I told her that right now I was driving car but I had another job and I’m doing both of them working really hard. She seemed harsh and very unimpressed with the driving job before I told her all of that. I felt impressed by the spirit to tell her that times were tough but the most important thing is that we have faith in God.

She said I don’t believe in God. I said, “I do know we have a God”. The thing is that we’re never supposed to say that and especially in a situation where you’re being challenged directly it could turn out bad but I felt like I should and I felt the spirit tell me to, so I did.

Right there her life opened up to me, I perceived her to be a young woman who had been raised in the church but in college she had decided that she wanted social acceptance more than she wanted to follow God.

I told her that. I told her that when she decided that she was going to go the other direction that she started looking for reasons not to believe in God. I told her that she looked for every sad or bad situation and then started blaming God and that it wasn’t fair because it showed a lack of understanding on her part.

She was shocked

I told her I would show her proof. One of the proofs was that she was in this car because God had sent me that day with that message. I told her that she had lost a boyfriend and felt lost, excluded and miserable lately and that God had sent me to bring the spirit to her so she could know where to turn….

I talked to her about some people I know who had just had a family member pass away. I told her that I had received a revelation that they had been in the presence of the person that had passed away and they knew it. These people then recounted that exact experience back to me. I told her that I couldn’t have done that if it wasn’t for God. I told her about the lady in my blog story “My God is a God of miracles” and how I knew about her dream. How could I have done these things…… if there wasn’t a God whispering to me?

Then I told her “when you got in the car tonight you felt at home, peaceful and secure because the spirit in the car is familiar to you.” Then I said how could I have known that if there wasn’t a God.

The spirit was strong in the car and I could tell that she was disarmed by that spirit. The sharpness of her previous tone was considerably mellowed and she listened to what I said.

She told me how she had been raised in the church and left the church. She said that her family was not very strictly obedient and they were from an area where everyone had their own ideas, from polygamy to the way the church should run and especially the word of wisdom.

She said she had two questions, one, how did I know these things and two, she wanted me to explain how a loving God could allow people to suffer like her friends had suffered.

I told her that God cannot take trials away from people and he will not because they need to learn to grow and he will not take away our freedom to choose, our agency, because we need that to grow. I told her sometimes people do evil things with their agency and that is when the rest of us need to step up and be God’s hands and voice.

She agreed.

I told her the other part of that is that he gave us Christ and his atonement to ease our pain and suffering, so the sting can be taken away.

By this time she was crying, weeping, She told me that she didn’t know how she was going to go in to the bar with her friends like that. I told her that now she knew that God was real. She thought for a moment and then said. yes I do. I told her that she had felt his presence in the car and she said, yes I have.

I asked her why God had sent me to her that night and why he had made me wait all of that time for her when the time had expired and I was supposed to leave. what was the purpose for that? She cried even harder. I said, because he needs you and he wants you back because he loves you. I told her that he loves her even though she hasn’t shown love to him. I told her that this is how wonderful God is.

I told her about this blog and she looked it up and she is going to read it. She knows where the church is and she said she will start to go. She got out of the car, still sobbing and 10 minutes later was still standing outside of the club where she was to meet her friends. It’s almost like she couldn’t bring herself to go in that place having been touched by the spirit so profoundly.

About her tears, I have thought about this. The spirit was strong in the car but I wonder if the tears were only a result of the spirit or also the sadness she felt for having denied God and separated herself from him. Now the spirit has unmistakably born witness to her. One thing she knows is that on this night God sent her a lift, a message and a light. At this point she has a clear choice.