Trooper forgives driver who struck him on side of road

Cade Brenchley serves as a sergeant with the Utah Highway Patrol. He has delivered twins on the side of the interstate and helped save a victim from a burning car. He serves as a soccer coach in the community, where the Utah DPS says he is “well respected and known.”

Now he’s known around the world.

Last Sunday, Sgt. Brenchley was responding to multiple car accidents in northern Utah’s Sardine Canyon. He was wearing a yellow safety vest and walking toward what appears to be a disabled car when a dark sedan came skidding by. It threw him into the air so violently that he struck the disabled car in front of him before landing on the snow-covered ground.

The video of the accident has been played and replayed on television and across the internet. The sedan continued skidding forward before finally coming to a stop facing backward. Several bystanders rushed to Sgt. Brenchley’s aid. He suffered broken ribs and a broken scapula but is expected to make a full recovery.

Now to the part of the story that most fascinates me: Sgt. Brenchley told reporters that the woman who struck him “is not to be vilified.” She was “in hysterics” when she approached him lying on the road, he said. “She did make a mistake, and I think she’s learned from it.”

The woman and some of the passengers in the car brought flowers when they visited him in the hospital. “I hold no ill will toward her,” he said. “And if anybody should be upset, it should be me or my family. But we’re not.”

“Against you, you only, have I sinned”

If anybody should be upset with you as a sinner, it should be the holy God of the universe.

All sin is ultimately against him. In admitting his adultery with Bathsheba, David prayed: “Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment” (Psalm 51:4).

The righteous King of all creation has every right to condemn each of us to an…