This story is from my friend Jonathan. He writes…

As we were leaving very early in the morning for our flight to Pennsylvania, I had an odd hunch that my glasses would break and that I should throw a back-up pair of glasses in my bag. I did and forgot about it. A week later after speaking in a church service, I was in the car praying about the service and asking God some questions about whether I had handled things correctly in what I had said and done. In the middle of my prayer my glasses “popped” and broke on my face. It looks like they had been screwed in too tightly and the tension had finally made the plastic break. God is so good to give little confirmations of His hand and steering along the way.

—Jonathan

The Lord really wants our good and he is happy to warn us about things that will cause us trouble or inconvenience. On a much larger scale, God warned the church in Antioch about an impending famine (Acts 11:28). He warned Pharaoh about a famine too (Genesis 41). In both cases, those warned were able to take corrective action. But if we are going to hear God’s warnings, we need to learn to pay attention to these, sometimes very subtle, promptings.

Glasses on laptop photo by Aliis Sinisalu on Unsplash

Broken glasses image credit: Felix Gray. Permission requested.