GOD SAID, “NO” - Jack Coe
Bob Davidson was a young boy in the children's home. His own father had been
crippled, and could not take care of his family. Although Coe was a national evangelist,
Davidson said he was like a "compassionate father" when he was at the home. Coe was
remembered by some as always being happy. He was a fun-loving man, who enjoyed
playing jokes on people. Even so, Coe heard from God concerning the children, and knew
when to draw the line.
Once, after being at the home for several years, Davidson had wanted to go to a State
Fair with some of his friends. When he went to ask Coe for money to go, Coe told him that if
he finished his chores, he could go.
Davidson worked hard to complete his duties in time to go. Running to meet Coe, he
shouted that he had finished all his work. About that time, the guys he was going to the Fair with pulled in front of the home in a brand new Plymouth Fury. They waved to Davidson telling him to hurry and get in the car so they could go.
Watching the scene, Coe gave Davidson money for his chores, but changed his mind
about the boy going to the Fair. Coe told him, "God said not to let you go."
Of course, Davidson didn't understand. He cried and yelled at Coe, "You lied! You lied!"
Then he ran to another part of the home.
After a while, Coe found Davidson and said, "If you really want to go to the Fair, I'll take you myself, but God said you could not go with those boys. I didn't feel right about letting you leave."
So Davidson dried his face and left for the Fair with Coe. As they traveled down the road, an ambulance and a sheriff's car passed them at high speeds, heading straight ahead of them.
Driving up ahead, nothing could match the horror of what they saw. There in them ditch, was the brand new Plymouth Fury, crushed and mangled. Beside it, scattered along the ground, were the broken bodies of Davidson's friends-all of them dead. Coe and Davidson stood by the road, holding one another, and crying.
- God’s General’s by Robert Liardon
- JESUS SAVES TV