It seemed to be such a simple, needless, stupid incident. He was coming home on his lunch hour driving his Volkswagen bug without a care in the world, when he looked in his rear-view mirror and saw a fire truck coming behind him(according to a witness). Without hesitation, he turned into the direct path of an oncoming car. He was hit broadside and thrown from the car which then rolled over his body.The terrible accident happened only two blocks from his home and right in front of his pastor’s house. His pastor heard the crash and ran to see if he could help. He got there in time to hold Ronnie in his arms as he took his last breaths - the young man that had grown up along side his own daughter.
When I got the news, I did the only thing I could think of in order to get some relief - I frantically drove to my church. There I went and fell on the floor of my Sunday School room and wept and screamed at God. How could this be??? How could something like this happen to a good, Christian kid? Hadn’t he just attended his church’s youth service the night before? How could God let such a sweet, funny, talented, ONLY child die so needlessly? I sobbed until I felt like I would never be able to cry again. I had no more tears, no more words left within me.In the middle of my exhausted anguish, I heard another voice deep within me. It said “God never fails; even when things are not going well. He knows our needs before we ask him. Look around and see what God has done - behind every cloud there lies a sun, the son of God that never fails.” I realized that God was relaying a message to me in a song. I got up and went and found a pen and paper in the church piano bench. Within minutes, I sat down at the piano where I wrote and sang the complete song “God Never Fails”.
A HARD LESSON - Pamela Wiebe
Some hard lessons are learned at a young age. I was only 18 years old but it was a September 2 that I would never forget. If there was ever a time I thought that God had failed big time - this was it. I had just gotten the news that my boyfriend had been killed in a car accident. It was Ronnie’s senior year and he was dreaming for big things in his life. He was a popular, good-looking, smart, Christian young man that played the drums for his church. He was a model son to his beloved parents. Ronnie was an only child, born quite miraculously to parents that had just about given up hope of ever fulfilling their dream of having a child. His father was in bad health so it was the last expectation in the world that it would be Ronnie who would leave this earth first.
That was thirty years ago but the words are as alive to me today as it was then. At a young age I learned that we won’t always get to know what God is up to - many times we have to “walk by faith and not by sight”. Trusting always includes some factor of the unknown. I’ve come to know that it is what we do know that is what we can hang on to. We have no choice but to leave the unknown up to an “all-knowing” God. I’ve learned to trust that He knows what he is doing and that the scripture is true that says “His ways are above our ways and his thoughts above our thoughts.”
When it came to recording my first CD, it just seemed natural that “God Never Fails” would be the first song on my CD project. It is a message that I have shared with my own daughters along with many other young people that my husband Garry and I have ministered to. We have served as youth pastors, CPS foster parents, and myself as a chaplain to incarcerated youth. Teens have been our world. I’ve found that “God never fails” is a true statement, no matter if we are young or old, locked in a prison or sitting on a church pew. We can have faith in a faithful Savior.
God is love and love never fails.
Watch and listen to God Never Fails here