don't swerve.

A couple weeks ago at church, we prayed for a family that had gotten into a serious car accident on their way to church. Days later, I heard a follow-up that this family had experienced miracle upon miracle, and they were all okay.

My friend showed me a text that included a few of the details. The first thing it said was that the dad, who was driving, heard a voice right before they crashed saying that they were about to get hit, but “don’t swerve.”

Later, he would find out that if he had swerved, the car would have flipped and they likely would have died.

The text update included several bullet points with jaw-dropping details like this one, but that phrase stuck with me: Don’t swerve.

I immediately thought about what it might feel like to know you’re about to get hit, to see it happening, and to actively decide to face the impact head-on rather than trying to avoid it.

In the case of this accident, swerving would have caused greater damage, but I kept thinking about how much this can be true in life too.

We often make decisions to avoid impact, hurt, pain, tension — whatever it is. When we see it coming, we tend to swerve to try get around it.

But sometimes the path of least resistance is a path that causes greater damage.

Sometimes the best way forward is to face what’s coming head-on. To trust that God is with you, protecting you, moving on your behalf, and bringing glory to His name.

What if God is telling you not to swerve today? In spite of what you see coming at you, trust Him enough to stay the course. Don’t avoid it. Don’t swerve. Stand your ground. He is with you, and He is for you.

The power of God is in you, even on a Thursday.