A couple years ago - the summer of '07 - my close friend Rachel and I were at her house, alone, hanging out while her mom was running errands. We got bored and wanted to swim in her rubber blow-up pool (like this one, but bigger) but we thought maybe we should call her mom first..and then we grew frustrated when she told us 'no'.
Rach and I were convicted enough to obey, so then we decided to play in her camper, next to the pool. As we were sitting, griping about our disappointment, we heard a loud POP followed by the sound of rushing water. We scrambled to the other side of the camper and saw that the entire pool had not just deflated, but was completely flattened to the side, to the point where the bottom of the pool was completely covered by heavy rubber. .. Just big enough to trap 2 girls our age underneath.
Now, granted, there is a chance we would have been able to scramble out - but it collapsed so suddenly and who has reflexes like that? Not us, I say..what if we had been trapped? What if we couldn't get out from underneath the rubber? It would have been heavy enough to suffocate us, I'm sure. We would have dead, and we would have died because we had disobeyed. The irony of the situation was shocking..were both shaking from relief and fear combined.
The point of this story is not only to praise God for convicting us enough that we didn't disobey her mom, but to keep us from doing just that. God's hand was working in that..
Definitely a story to get you thinking ( :
xoxo, and in Christ,
Emma <3
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