So because I have a hard time falling asleep, I've been reading a book at night. I read it last summer, as part of my devotions. Last night, a really cool analogy was given.

One night a man is driving on the road and a deer jumps out in front of him. Luckily, the deer wasn't hurt or his car damaged.
Another night, a deer runs out in front of a car. The impact caused it to go right over the car and then landed behind the car. The car suffered minimum damage. The person in this car was a little shaken up, and affected their drivig the next few weeks.
One day a couple was driving through the countryside, windows down because it was such a nice, beautiful day They say a deer stumbling down a hillside next to the road in front of the. They had seen deer do this many times before, but this deer wasn't stoppin! Somehow, when the deer got to the bottom of the hill, the car was right there as well. The deer dove headfirst into the open window of the car into the lap of the wife. The deer started jumpin and jivin. As expected, this left quite a bit of damage to their car and forever changed the driving habits of that couple.


"All three of these stories involved a collision with a deer, each with very different results. In the same way, each of us will have an encounter with God. For some of us, an encounter with God produces no change in who we are and how we live. For others, God might collide with us, and it changed us temporariy. However for some of us, a head-on collision with the living, holy God will ruin us-alter us forever. "

Which is true of mine and your collisions with God?