I have learned a great lesson today. I have learned that someone can be totally wrong and still make money off their lie. It makes me very angry but there is nothing I can do about it.
Let me explain. On July 27, 2009, my husband was in a driveway off Highway 51 North. Suddenly a car traveling WAY too fast on hwy.51 jumped a ditch and t-boned him in the driveway. Yes, that's right, the driveway. My husband was hit so hard that he actually passed out for a second upon exiting the car. The other driver told the police that my husband had made a right-hand turn from the left-hand lane. The officer ticketed my husband for failure to yield the right of way IN A DRIVEWAY. Long story short, we got the ticket dismissed and our insurance refused to pay for his vehicle and his insurance did too.
Today, a sheriff's deputy appeared at my door to serve my husband with papers for a law suit filed by the guy that hit my husband. The deputy told me that my insurance company will settle with him to the tune of $10,000-15,000 to save them the attorney's fees. So he gets $10,000 minimum to reward him for doing wrong.
I want to scream from my roof that my husband did nothing wrong and this is sooooo not fair. God knows how I feel. Jesus told the crowd gathered on the Mount, "But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. For he causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." (Matthew 5:44-45) What God requires me to do is to pray for this guy even though he lied about us and is now going to cause our insurance to go up. As I pray for him, I will be able to love him through Christ's love for him.
However, my father always told me that there is always payday someday. In that same sermon Jesus tells the crowd,"And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell!" (Matthew 5:35) He knows he lied and he caused one of his friends to lie (the friend later repented and told the truth). I don't know if he is a believer or not, but I do know that come the White Throne of Judgment, he will have to answer for what he is doing now before a holy and just God. That at least provides a little comfort.
I would like you, my readers, to pray for me as I struggle to pray that God touch him and show him His love. It's going to be hard but this is God's command concerning this matter that we have now had to struggle with for a year. And while he may thumb his nose at God's commands, I REFUSE to allow this fallible MAN ruin my relationship with GOD.
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