"My goal is God Himself . . . At any cost, dear Lord, by any road."

A friend from my former church gave me such a simple blessed truth on Friday........and by God's grace it was very timely for the weekend I was about to have ~

"As soon as we get any kind of comfortable here in this world, the Lord will give us trials if we are his so that we remember that this is not our home....and that we shouldn't trust in anything in this world."

Not to get into all of the details of my seeming mountains of trials lately......but one in particular is starting to settle down today.
Saturday afternoon I was content and joyful and heading to 'surprise visit' my brother.....then to get some shopping for essentials done. Well....I pulled into a parking lot...and just a few seconds later, a cop pulled in behind me, blocking me in and had his lights on.
He walks up and asks me who's name the car is in, I said "I hope mine, I just bought it about a month ago.."
Then, in an ever-innocent tone I said "Is something wrong, have I done something?"

He grabs my license, and darts back to his car....comes back to me quickly and tells me that my license is suspended due to an unpaid fine from this past summer.
I about lost my marbles....I said "that cannot be, I paid it in person."
He asked me for evidence of my paying the fine, which of course I didn't have with me in my new car......and proceeded to tell me he's writing me a citation and impounding my car.
He walked back to his car and I called my little brother and told him the scoop........and where I was. He was about a mile away and the cop said that if someone came to help me - 2 people would need to come- one to drive my car and one to drive the other car back.
My little brother RAN much of the way to try to save me from the $250 expense of impounding.

The tow truck arrived just as my brother did.....and Praise the LORD - even though he was a heartless -"on power trip" type of police officer.......he waved the tow truck away and said that he would let my brother drive my car.

Long story - a little longer.......I wrestled much with the unjust-ness of it all. "It's not fair that I couldn't drive all weekend and that my friends and family had to cart me around for 2 1/2 days.......since after all it's an error with the state of Minnesota...."
But my little brother reminded me of the Sovereign God of the universe...how he rules and reigns and works all things after the counsel of His will....including human errors at the state offices.
So...then I got to thinking (and need to quite a bit more) what is He trying to teach me through all this?
How to suffer unjustly is all that I've come up with. And I can tell you that this time around I failed miserably, so I can bet there will be a re-test soon.
(I grumbled to God and to friends - like a spoiled brat)

I called the violations bureau this morning and they said "hmm, must have been a miscommunication between the systems....I show that you've paid the fine back in August...."
She kindly faxed me proof so that I can drive and promised to have the police computers updated in the next 48 hours.

What next?