More than meets the eye....

Dave volunteers at the Dallas Pregnancy Resource Center a couple of times a month. The other evening when he was leaving a guy ran up and jumped in the car. Some other guys were chasing this fellow. One guy said he'd stolen something from him and the others had just joined in. One of them encouraged Dave to call the police. The other guy left at some point. The man in the car spoke only Spanish, but Dave could tell he seemed desperate. As Dave was telling me about it, details became more clear to him. He realized the first man had been so scared he was crying. Then it dawned on Dave that the men chasing him never retrieved anything stolen. As he thought about it, he put together the original chaser had left when he dialed the police. It was the "thief" who wanted the police. The "victim" left when police were mentioned. We decided that for whatever reason, that man wanted to hurt this guy. The poor guy may have been running for his life! Dave may have actually saved the guy's life by calling the police. (They didn't come because the chaser left and the dispatch told the Hispanic to get out of the car.) The other guys were just there. I thought, how cool that Dave volunteers to try to save lives. But God threw him into a situation where he unvoluntarily saved someone's life! One never knows when and how God might be using them at the least suspecting times!