Deacon's Diary

Deacon's Diary is a weekly feature that appears on the back side of the bulletin at the First Baptist Church of Avalon, Texas.

Expect to be inspected.

We have all either heard someone say, or said this old saying ourselves. "There is a first time for everything."  With a little thought, all of us have probably experienced multiple situations where that phrase would apply.

I had one of those just last week on my way to Little Rock. There is weigh station just the other side of Texarkana that I have been through many times before without ever being called in for inspection. It had gotten to the point that I had pretty much decided that I didn't have to worry about that place at all. After years of going through there without getting stopped, I just took it for granted that it would never happen. But last week proved me wrong.

And to top it all off, when I walked through the door, the DOT officer there gave me cause to think upon that phrase once again. He gave me a choice. We could go through an inspection or not. He left it up to me. That never happens.

Once the shock of being given the choice wore off I decided to go ahead and get the inspection. I knew all my paperwork was in order and I knew the truck was in good shape. The inspection would go in my favor. And a clean and clear inspection is always good for the record. I had nothing to worry about and had plenty of time. The first time I ever had the choice, I was good to go.

When I left the weigh station I thought about some of the other times that I had been through there when I might not have been so ready. I thought about how lucky I was that it was at this time that I got called in. I remembered a couple of times that I sure was glad I didn't get called in. And you can bet that if I had been called in on a bad day, there wouldn't have been a choice.

All that thinking got me to thinking about something else. Something a lot more important than any DOT inspection. I thought about the more than just a couple of times that I came close to death in my younger and wilder days. Brushes with death when I didn't come close to having everything in order.

I pondered over these things on Thanksgiving. How grateful I am for all the blessings that God has given to me. How grateful I am for my salvation. And how truly grateful I am that God did not call me in when I was not ready.

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