So there I was laying in my bed, it's maybe 11:30 at night and just had a wild urge for a rootbeer float. I already had the ice cream, but not the rootbeer. My first thought was going to Wendy's, but could also just go up to the gas station and get one from the fountain. I put on some clothes, hopped in the car, backed out the garage, and made my way down the street. As I got to the entrance to the subdivision, I saw a police officer parked, and suddenly I saw like 5 of them.

Not worried, just made sure it was safe to proceed. They didn't even pay attention to me because they were distracted. Wendys was closed, so I came back to the gas station. During my journey I crossed paths with to senior ladies who were lost. They were hoping to be on I75 north, and was on I 85N instead. Those that know the area know they were WAY off. They were on their way to S. Carolina. I gave them directions to get back on track, which was about a good 40 minutes away.

I continued, got my rootbeer, and made my way home. The road was dark, so I imagined the police were gone. Nope! So, I pulled into the turn lane into my subdivision where an officer orders me to pull over to another officer. Lights blazing in my eyes, another takes a light and begins searching through my car. Another asks for my license, etc. I'm not worried, because I have no tickets or warrants. Wait....there's that one time that....oh, hey, nevermind. :-) As I pull out my wallet, another officer says, "Hey, you live here right?" Pointing at the subdivision. I answer yes, and he says, "Oh, don't worry about it, go on home.". I thank the officers with a smile, turned my Spensha Baker CD back up, and made my way to my hacienda.

But I'm thinking....wait....how does he know who I am and were I live???? Ha! If you see me on America's Most Wanted, it wasn't me, I tell ya, it just wasn't! Anyway, if you've read this far, I shared this to make a point.

There are times in our lives in which God wants us to be in the right position. When it's that time, He will give you instructions or directions on how to get there, when to get there, and where to be. Now, He may not always tell you why, but let me encourage you that the "why" is not always important to you. What is important to you is your obedience to His direction. Another minister once made the statement, "If you are in a crowded restaurant, and you feel like God is telling you to stand on the table and cluck like a chicken, no matter how crazy it may seem, just do it. Because you don't know if someone at a table near you made the statement, that if there is a God, someone will cluck like a chicken"

Now I am not telling you to start going out doing crazy stuff. But just be obedient to His voice. We are a part of God's plan. If you say you want Him to use you, then let Him use you without question. In this case, it was me having a weird craving for a rootbeer float that led me to be in the right spot at the right time to help someone who was lost and on their way to be way off their path. Midnight is not a good time to be drinking a rootbeer float, and I started to not even go. But what if I had not? What if I had turned around at the sight of the police? Those ladies would have been in Virginia by now. lol. Well, maybe that's stretching it, but you get the point.

So when God is leading you, let Him lead you. Sometimes He speaks to us for our benefit, but most times what He uses us for has nothing to do with us. Our service to Him has nothing to do with us, but how He uses us to help others. It's about Him getting the glory out of our lives. Your blessings are given to you with the intention that you will in turn bless someone else. Yes, you know the phrase, you were blessed to be a blessing. You become that blessing when you allow God to use you and position you in the right place, at the right time, for the right purpose. Acts 9 tells a story of Saul being on a path, and after a conversation with Christ, he was blinded. God then instructed Ananias to go to a certain spot, and there he would find Saul. Ananias had to trust God's voice no matter how crazy it was to go meet a person who had ordered his imprisonment, and Saul had to trust someone to lead him where he had no way of seeing his way. At that time, neither probably knew what would occur, the complete conversion of Saul to become Paul and one of the greatest Apostles there were. But because of their obedience, we now have the majority of the New Testament written.

So trust God, trust His direction, and when He says go, go. When He says speak, speak. Don't question it, don't try to figure it out, just yield. And most importantly, when He says love, love.

May you find His peace,
Your Brother Kelvin