Day
14
Thursday,
July 5h
based
on a K-Love call in
God Happenstances
“I heard an interesting story today”, she
said. “About?” “Ok, here it is as the lady told it. She had many errands to do
and so she headed out to accomplish them all. She volunteers at a nursing home
and as she drove she was passing the nursing where she volunteered her time.
She felt a God nudge to pull into the nursing home, but she didn’t. She had so
many things that needed to be done that she chose to ignore the God nudge. Soon
she realized that her thoughts were distracted and she was beginning to fail to
remember what errands she had to accomplish, where she needed to go and even
where she was. She confessed the error of her ways and turned the car around to
head back to the nursing home. On her route was her church and she decided that
she could stop into her church and drop off the payroll for the youth workers.
As she was leaving the church parking lot, she saw an apparent homeless man,
struggling with many bags of groceries. The day was hot and he had so many bags.
She got out of her car and spoke to the man. He told her that he had such a
long way to go with so many bags. She told him to wait right there and she
would see about getting him a ride. Heading back into the church she found a
gentleman who was just leaving the church, explained the situation, and asked
if he could take the man. He agreed. She helped load the grocery bags into the
car and saw them off. She stopped right then and said a word of thanks to God.
Even in her rebellion He was able to use her. She didn’t make it to the nursing
home but she was just in the right place at the right time to meet the needs of
another.” “Wow”, I said. “It is always amazing to me how things work in the
universe. There truly are no coincidences, just God happenstances.”
I pondered the wisdom of the lady who
realized that there can be value even in one who has a rebellious nature about
them. I find that God uses all moments to accomplish His plans in the lives of somebody;
we just don’t always see those plans come to fruition. Sometimes it takes years
and years. Sometimes it is, as for this lady, almost immediate. I imagine that,
to God who sees all points in every life all the time that it has to absolutely
boggle the mind. But of course, He is God. To my minute brain I cannot fathom
it all, knowing the waking and the lying down of six billion people. It is all
I can do to keep up with my own waking and lying down. The awesomeness of God
is just so unfathomable.
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