Foolish decisions / Testimony*

A short while back on August 8th blog I wrote, My Testimony. In there I wrote I had made some foolish decisions and God was with me thru them. About 2000 I met a young lady at a Church in Renton, WA. She had a 6-year-old son at that time. I married her in spite of the fact that a Christian Lady warned me not too. She knew this lady I was about to marry and said, she will hurt you.  I did marry her and she did hurt me. But what I really want to talk about is how God was with me thru this ordeal. We were only married about a month and the apartment where we were living evicted us. They told me I could come back but not with her. We separated and I already believed she was unfaithful to me. About a week after we were married she started asking me to adopt her son. I didn't. I filed for divorce sometime in about the 2nd month because I believed she was unfaithful to me. A neighbor at the apartment complex pulled me aside and let me know something was going on. Many nights when I was on my way home I'd notice a white ford van going the opposite direction.
I knew my wife had an old male friend that drove a white Ford van. After we were separated I moved to Tacoma after a short time staying with my sister. One night about 2 AM,  I received a phone call with the person on the other end of the line telling me if I wanted to know where my wife was, to go to Motel 6 in Seatac. That next morning on my way to work I drove by the Motel 6 in Seatac and saw the white Ford van there. I went on to work. About 7:30 in the morning I left work and went back to the Seatac Motel 6 and got there just as the white Ford van was leaving. I stood in front of it and clearly saw my wife in the passenger seat of the van. She did not want a divorce and months went by. One day after I had moved again to a different apartment in Tacoma I was driving down the street where I knew she was staying. I was praying about this situation as I was driving along. I said God, I know you hate divorce and my wife does not want a divorce. But I can't see into her heart, you alone know what she is doing. I believe she is unfaithful to me but maybe I am being hasty in trying to divorce so soon. You, God, are the only one that really knows what is going on. Help me to know the right action to take. As I was praying I felt impressed to turn one street over so as to not drive down the street in front of her house. I was still praying about this situation when I came to a stop sign. I was about the 4th car back from the stop sign. As I was sitting there still praying, I saw my wife cross the street in front of the 4 cars in front of me. I watched her go to the gas station on my right and get into the same white Ford van whose license plate I had memorized by this time. I felt God impress upon me, I showed you this so you would know what is going on, not to cause a scene. I didn't cause a scene, I drove on and continued with divorce proceedings. I tell this because even though I had made a foolish decision to marry this woman who hurt me deeply, God was still with me. Even though he hates divorce, he still helped me thru this difficult period in my life. When I think of the goodness of Jesus in spite of my foolishness, how could I not recommend this Jesus to anyone who will listen? Just like Jesus helped the Samaritan woman at the well, who had 5 husbands and was with another man who was not her husband, he still helps us today. John 4:18 "For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly." Anyone who will put their trust in Jesus will not be disappointed.  God bless, LVZ.