We have a home warranty. If you haven’t got one, search online for “home warranty florida” or wherever it is that you live to find the best warranties available to you. You won’t regret it.

Ours has come in handy in the past when we’ve needed appliance repair Greensboro, but the main reasons we renewed it this year is because the heating / AC unit on our house is 19 years old. With a life expectancy of 10 years, we knew it was likely to go out. And it did.

On October 28th.

What would we do now? Having our HVAC system break at any time of the year is bad enough, let alone having to deal with it when we’re slowly coming up to the winter months. So, I asked my friend if he had any advice about what to do next. The same thing happened to him a couple of weeks ago, and he was lucky that he had access to these hvac contractors Colorado Springs, as they were able to get it up and running again for him in no time. It was an easy fix, but that could’ve been because his system was newer than ours. After hearing what he had to say, I knew I had to sort this out before our problems could get any worse… if that’s even possible.

We have had intermittent heating issues since then. Sometimes it wouldn’t blow any air at all. Other times it would blow cold air. Each time I called our home warranty company since the terms of the contract state they would repair or replace the unit. This is an important part of understanding what your warranty covers when it comes to parts of your home, after all. Whilst others would have likely been able to sort this issue for us, however, after 12 visits from technicians from 3 different companies, it was clear to me that no repairs would hold and so I started pushing for a replacement unit.

No dice.

I pushed.

No luck.

I was mean and said things I shouldn’t have. I had to call back and apologize.

Nothing.

I wrote letters to the board of directors of this company. I filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. I compalined. I called. I bellowed. I appealed. I even prayed (not necessarily for the souls of the people on the other end of the line, admittedly).

I think I felt a little like the woman Jesus described in Luke 18:

“There was a judge in one town who didn’t fear God or respect man. And a widow in that town kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he was unwilling, but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I dont fear God or respect man, yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice, so she doesn’t wear me out by her persistent coming.'”

It’s easy to look at this passage and think that Jesus’ point is something like, “If you just pray enough, you can wear God down. You have to beat on the door of heaven to get what you need, just like this woman annoyed the judge into granting her justice.”

But that’s not Jesus’ point at all. We encountered a company who was doing business the way business is done – which is to make money. And to buy a new heating unit for a family is considerably more expensive than sending out technicians to put band-aids on it.

Jesus’ point is that God isn’t like that. At all:

“Listen to what the unjust judge says. Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay to help them? I tell you that He will swiftly grant them justice. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find that faith on the earth?”

We are getting a new heater. After 2 months of pestering, the company has relinquished and is buying it for us. And as it’s delivered, it stands as a reminder that God isn’t like the home warranty company. Or the judge. He’s the Father who stands ready to help His children. He knows what we need before we ask.

He knows, in fact, better than we do what we need. If God delays His answer or it comes in a different form than we might expect, it’s not because He’s trying to save a buck. Or because He’s hard of hearing. It’s because He’s vastly more committed to our good than we are.

Do I believe that? Maybe a little more today.

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