Page 34 - Evidence of Things Unseen

me if she could get it activated by taking out a contract with a security company. I neglected
to pray about this situation, and wishing to please my wife, who did agree to move to this
town with me, I gave her my consent.
In our bedroom was a panel with lights that monitored all of the zones in the house.
They were green when all was okay, and red when an alarm had been tripped. I did not
know that my wife was lying awake night after night staring at the panel in fear that one of
the lights would change from green to red. About a month after moving in, my wife and I
were alone in the house, having sent our children to stay with some neighbors for the night.
About 3 AM one of the alarm sensors tripped and a light went from green to red. Right
outside our bedroom, on the outside of the house, was an alarm, and I had never heard it
before. It was like a claxon siren that might announce a bombing raid, or the approach of
a tornado. It was horrendously loud; loud enough to wake the entire neighborhood. It began
blaring, and being awakened to such a noise from a sound sleep sent both my wife and I into
a panic. The noise was so overwhelming that all I could think of was turning off the alarm.
I ran to the panel and keyed in the security code to turn it off.
My wife was greatly frightened, suspecting that we had an intruder in the house. She
went to our closet and took out a pellet gun that I had purchased as a play thing, and she
handed it to me. I told her that I would have to shoot the intruder in the eyeball with it to
do any good, so I handed it back to her and I grabbed a can of pepper spray, which is similar
to mace. I did a search of the house while my wife called the police and went to the front
door to wait for them. There was no intruder in the house, and after a thorough
examination we found that a sensor on a front window had tripped. The children had been
playing there earlier in the day and must have bumped it. Since the house was close to the
road, it was probably just the vibration from a car going by that had set the alarm off.
My wife and I were very keyed up after all of this excitement, and had difficulty going
back to sleep. I realized that God had gone before us in having our children stay with friends
that night. This was something God wanted my wife and I to deal with. In the morning I
spoke to my wife about the alarm system. I told her that it was not providing security.
Rather it was producing fear. She then confessed to me that she had been lying awake for
hours every night staring at the panel in fear that it would go off.
I shared my heart with Tony, telling her that the Spirit was indicating to me that we
needed to entrust the security of our home and family to Him, and to cancel our security
contract. Tony agreed, and we called that day and canceled it. I also threw away our pepper
spray. I was convinced that God wished us to lean completely upon Him in this matter of
our security and safety, and that anything else we leaned on to fulfill this same function
would keep us from knowing God’s provision. Eventually some opportunity would present
itself where that which we trusted in would be tested. Therefore, I did not want to keep a
gun in the house, or the pepper spray, or even the security system. I wanted to lean entirely
upon God and look to Him to be our shelter and strong tower.
I had never owned an actual gun, just having had BB guns and pellet guns for my own
entertainment to do target shooting. However, I considered at this time what it would be
like to have a gun in the house. I kept coming back to the thought that if I trusted in a gun
for the protection of my family, eventually God would lead me to a time when I had to prove
the value of this thing I was trusting in. Every scenario I could think of, in which I would
have to pick up a gun and point it at another person for defense of myself or my family, left
me recoiling at the visions of the aftermath of such an event. I decided that I would much
rather place our security in God’s hands, and trust Him to spare us from ever having to