One Sunday morning, we were preparing to head out the door for a weekly Sunday school class we host in a very poor and underprivileged area on the outskirts of our city.
As we began packing things into the car, my brother said, “I don’t feel good about going.”
We were surprised. It was out of character for him to want to stay home.
“Are you feeling sick?”
“No, I mean that I don’t have a good feeling about going to Sunday school today. Like something’s not right.”
Then I remembered. “That’s really weird, I had a dream last night that we were at Sunday school and something awful happened.”
We prayed about it, and felt the Lord leading us to not go to Sunday school that week. Disappointed, but at peace, we unpacked the car and stayed home.
The following week, as we pulled up to the building where we host the Sunday school, we saw the unmistakable signs of rioting—black scorch marks of burnt tires, shattered glass everywhere, and barbed wire. A grisly armed security guard strolled by with a petrol bomb swinging in his fingers.
We quickly gathered the children and went into the compound for Sunday school. We asked one of the older boys what was going on. His eyes were wide as he said, “People were trying to build houses over there, but they’re not allowed to, so last Sunday they were rioting. The government had to call security to control them.” None of the kids had been allowed near there when that was happening, and thankfully they were all safe.
We were so grateful we had heeded the Lord’s leading. There is such peace in following the Lord, and trying your best to go when and where He shows you to go. He takes good care of us; this has been proven to me many times. But I couldn’t count all the ways the Lord has protected me, because I probably don’t even know about half of them! My dad used to sing a song that says:
God only knows the times my life was threatened just today.
A reckless car ran out of gas before it came my way.
Near misses all around me, accidents unknown,
And I never see with human eyes the hands that lead me home.
We can never take for granted the Lord’s wonderful protection. We may never know all He does to keep us safe, but we know we are in His hands and that’s the best security in the world.