Let me tell you about a miracle that has happened this week.
My car, a Smart car, failed its MOT last week; two warning lights were appearing on the dashboard and had been doing this everyday for the past 4 months. Although I knew that it would probably fail its MOT based on this I thought I would still put the car in to the garage for an MOT anyway and asked them to put any problems right. Well, when I went to pick the car up later that week, it was no surprise that it had failed its MOT based on this fault. What also did not surprise me was the fact that the garage could no fix the fault.
Why is it that one of the cheapest cars to buy on the market can also be one of the most expensive for a service? There is an odd tie-up with the Smart car; Chrysler build the cars and Mercedes market and service the vehicles. Basically this means due to the complexity of the car any work required generally needs to go through a Mercedes garage and an automatic ‘0’ added to the bill!
Back to the miracle; the car went to Mercedes to fault find. They found that a sensor needed to be replaced and it would cost about £250 to fix. That’s right for a small sensor that was really not going to affect the running of the car was going to cost me £250 to fix. Next problem, I had 5 days to get it fixed otherwise the MOT would run out on the car and would mean that I could not legally drive it. Final problem was that I did not have the funds to fix the problem - To fix the problem would mean that we would go into debt this month and probably next month as well. Surely God would not want that!
We needed some serious praying time!
The day after the car came out of the Mercedes garage and I was thinking about how I could afford to get the car fixed all of a sudden the warning lights went off and stayed off. That was it the car was booked in for re-test for the MOT and has passed. Although there was a nervous wait in the waiting room – Jesus would never leave me.
The warning light has still not come back on, this is not to say that it has tried a couple of times, but to no avail!
Now to my family that was a serious miracle; God has helped us continue to run a car for me to get to work without costing us a fortune to do so. I think it is down to two things; us starting tithing just two months ago and also the power of prayer. Two great offerings to the might Lord because he deserves it.
Have faith and God will provide!
Actually Mercedes builds the cars at a plant in France called “smartville.” This began a long time before Chrysler was purchased by Diamler-Benz (and then sold back to American investors last yeat).
Chrysler Corp. NEVER had anything to do with smart.
To clarify the full history of the Smart car can be found by clicking here.
What a wonderful Father we have. Great testimony.