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I want to share with you a listener’s report of how she cleared her conscience by making restitution for damage caused by her car, about which she had previously lied. She gave me permission to share her letter with you.
She wrote the following:
Dear Mary,
Well, I finally did it! . . . I wrote to you many moons ago about an incident I had over a year ago at a job where I ran into someone’s car in the parking lot and lied about it and got away with it. The job no longer existed and I couldn’t remember Mr. X (the man whose car got hit). Your reply was what I didn’t want to hear, but I knew that was what you would say. You told me to find Mr. X and inform him of such and make amends with him and then confess to all others involved. Your letter was what I needed to motivate me to do something besides cry when I read Psalm 51.
I immediately started to pray and then mailed a letter to Mr. X (it wasn’t hard to track him down). The Lord really inspired me to write a real neat letter in which I gave God the glory and honor because he persistently cared enough for me to continue to bring it to mind and seek advice from you. I also informed Mr. X I would pay him for any damages he accrued and that I would be calling him on Friday.
That whole week my prayers to the Lord were intense to say the least . . . Then Friday came. I prayed Psalm 121, picked up my Bible with sweaty palms and a racing heart and dialed the number. He was very nice on the phone and made no judgments. We agreed to a figure and I asked him if I could do payments. He agreed.
After we hung up, I raised my Bible in the air and must’ve said a dozen times “Thank you Lord!” I thanked him for the gift he gave me in you and your ministry.
Since then I’ve paid Mr. X off and I’ve written four other letters (one to my ex-boss) explaining the situation. It feels GREAT! No, it wasn’t easy, but I know how much harder it would have been without the Lord. How tremendous it is to be accountable to our magnificent Lord. Psalm 51:4 is becoming more and more burned into my heart. I just had to share my blessing with you.
I am so glad she allowed me to share her blessing with you because I’m certain that many of us have things on our conscience that need to be cleared away.
