So I started to wonder, what if everything in life was just coinsidence? I recently got involved in a simple game called "Farm Town" on Facebook. In the game you can go to a place called the "Marketplace" and hire yourself out to harvest someone elses field. The unemployment rate in Farm Town seems to be pretty high, about 30 people looking for a job for every one that is available. It's completely up to the farmer to choose who he wants to hire. The other day I popped into the Marketplace to sell some crops and in the 15 seconds that I was in there I was hired to harvest a field. Was it just coincidence -- was I just at the right spot at the right time?
I hear people say, "it was fate", "it was meant to be", "the timing was perfect"; they say these things about finding shoping deals, finding potential romantic interests, and even about God. The struggle I have is that I don't believe that God leaves things to coincidences, I don't believe in fate. I beleive that God has a plan, that God has chosen the time and the place, that if something happens it isn't fate, good timing, or karma. It is God.
This makes me look at my life plans, at my daily agenda, at this very moment and ask...."if God has designed this moment for me--what are the plans that he has for me at this moment?"
"Did it never occur to you
that I'm behind all this?
Long, long ago I drew up the plans,
and now I've gone into action,
Using you as a doomsday weapon,
reducing proud cities to piles of rubble,"
--2 Kings 19:25 in the Message Bible
that I'm behind all this?
Long, long ago I drew up the plans,
and now I've gone into action,
Using you as a doomsday weapon,
reducing proud cities to piles of rubble,"
--2 Kings 19:25 in the Message Bible
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