Simply An Accident

But if it was simply an accident permitted by God, I will appoint a place of refuge where the slayer can run for safety.  Exodus 21:13 NLT

We know the story and how in order to attack the righteous Job the enemy had to first be permitted by God to do the dirty work he intended to bring down the man. How often have we thought that accidents too are permitted or not by God? Here in the word for today, we see that Moses tells the people and us that accidents are indeed not a surprise to God, as they are to us, and that permission from our Lord is what allows these to happen. The news of the day will tell you why this subject has come up today. 

You can see it coming a mile away, as can many in places where they might do something about it if they just knew the time and place of the incident coming like a freight train too close to the crossing to be stopped before striking that car unwisely going around the lowered crossing guard. A city where the heat is already turned up on emotions because of a prior incident, protesters and others walking the streets, police trying to maintain order, and hundreds of interactions between those carrying guns as part of their lawful equipment and those who might be carrying guns as part of their criminal lifestyle. It is like the thing is scripted in an office in a dark cave where warfare in the streets of a city is the desired outcome. Scripted and performed again, and again, and again...

A place of refuge to run for safety. Seems like we all need that place of refuge from the enemy these days. Let us pray that Jesus will be kind enough to lead us there to Himself, one and all!

Bucky