Road Carnage

On Sunday morning I was driving my Toyota Landcruiser filled with eight girl football players. We had left Kisumu early that morning and were heading to Homa Bay for the finals of the Constituency Tournament. The girls were busy singing praise and worship songs at the top of their lungs. Off in the distance we saw a big crowd gathered on the road. The vehicle quickly became quiet and we tried to see what was happening. On one side of the road was a big semi-truck overturned. On the other side was a bus on its side, totally destroyed. In the middle of the road several dead bodies were scattered along with glass and other remains of the vehicles. There was even a pair of legs lying in the road with no upper half.

It is a hard thing to comprehend and words can’t explain it. All of us were in shock and spontaneously I began a thirty minute discourse on the sovereignty of God and how fragile life is. As I drove down the road, I urged them to put their lives right with the Lord because we don’t know when our time will come and we must be ready. Each of the girls was listening intently. God has promised us in Romans, “We know in all things God works for the good of those who love him and have been called according to his purpose.” That was true on that morning. In the worst of circumstances, he used it to draw others into a relationship with him and allow their lives to be transformed.