It was one of those questions that I asked myself after hearing the story about the 92-year-old woman who thwarted a robber’s attempt to take her money. Her faith witness was the only weapon she waged against the threatening robber who had slipped into the front passenger seat of her car as she sat in a Walmart parking lot near Dyersburg, Tenn.

“Twice the disheveled man, who Jacobi said appeared to be in his 50s, demanded money. The third time, he said if she didn’t comply, he would kill her, ” according to an article in the Dyersburg State Gazatte.

“Then the good Lord took over,” Jacobi said. “I said, ‘If you kill me, I’m going straight to heaven. If you kill me, you’re going to hell.’”

She later asked the man  if he would like to go to heaven. “‘Yes, I sure would,’” he told Jacobi. “‘But I’m afraid the Lord won’t take me.”‘

“Yes he will. He will take you if you believe,” she replied. “He’d save you right here and now. All you have to do is believe in Him and accept Him as your savior.”

Jacobi first recounted her story for the local newspaper in December 2007 days after the incident occurred, and now a YouTube video that followed is making its rounds again on the Internet. Who knows why the video is making a resurgence. Seeing the video for the first time yesterday, it left me in awe of this white-haired granmother and with that nagging question, “what would I have done?”  Jump out of the car maybe; scream for help. Hand over the money. Sit there and witness, I’m not sure.

Would I have been led by my fear of someone sitting next to me and saying he had a gun and would kill me if I didn’t give him my money? Or by my faith that says I am not given a spirit of fear but of love….and that in the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil because God is with me?  I’m still not sure. I would like to think that in times of such a threat my faith would kick in or more to the point that Jacobi made that the good Lord would take over. 

Take a look at this and then tell me, what would you do?

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