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GOD’S STRATEGIC WAYS

something I got from "Meet the Bible". It's super nice talaga.

God's strategic ways

When was the last time you were in the right place at the right time?
People tell stories about getting jobs, meeting spouses, winning prizes and finding bargains all because they were at the right place at the right time. Often these seemingly accidental strokes of good fortune are explained with the words, “it was meant to be”. If the job offer is given, it was meant to be. If the relationship flourishes, it was meant to be. On the converse, if the job falls through or the relationship sours, it was not meant to be.
What lies behind these words? Are we speaking in a roundabout way of God’s hand in our lives? Or are we attributing our successes and failures to the more general and impersonal hand of fate?
Esther had several such fortunate experiences. She was selected as a contestant to become queen, then won the king’s favor and became royalty. She was in the palace at the time a plot to kill the Jews developed. She waited for a second banquet to present her request to the king, unknowingly giving him time to read about Mordecai’s act of saving his life. Continually Esther found herself in the right place at the right time to save her people. Her circumstances were more than “meant to be”. They were brought about by a sovereign God who had a plan for Esther’s life and for the lives of His people.
We serve the same God as did the Jews of Esther’s day. God tells us, “I the LORD do not change” (Malachi 3:6). His ways of moving in our lives may look somewhat different from His ways of moving in the Old Testament, but God has not changed, nor have His purposes. Just as He had a plan for His people then, He has a plan for those who belong to Him now. We can trust that whenever we find ourselves in the right place at the right time, God’s hand is present.
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who do not change like shifting shadows” (James 1:17). We can thank God for each stroke of good fortune, each providential gift. Sometimes they are simple blessings. Other times they are His strategic ways of fulfilling the bigger purposes He has for us. –BQ

DAILY CONTEMPLATION

Do you wonder about the places to which God has brought you in your life? Do you have questions about failures or missed opportunities? Ask God to help you better see your life through His eyes, and place yourself in His care, trusting that his good purpose for you will be achieved.

(taken from: Meet the Bible,©2000. Yancey, Philip & Quinn, Brenda [pg 373, DAY 196—Reflection]).

posted by aLotSkI @ 9:40 PM