It was a 99-degree September day in San Antonio, Texas, when a woman accidentally locked her 10-month-old baby inside a parked car. Frantically the mother ran around the auto in near hysteria, while a neighbor attempted to unlock the car with a clothes hanger.
Soon the infant was turning purple and had foam on her mouth. It had become a life-or-death situation when Fred Arriola, a wrecker driver, arrived on the scene. He grabbed a hammer and smashed the back window of the car to set her free. The baby survived miraculously thanks to this courageous man.
Was he heralded a hero? Not at all. He said, "The lady was so mad at me and threatened to sue me simply because I broke the window to save her child. I just thought, what’s more important--the baby or the window?"
Sounds crazy, right? Well, that’s how silly we look to God when we let such little things of this life take over our thinking and we lose sight of keeping the main thing the main thing!
Colossians 3:2 "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."
- Precept Austin