Psalm 66:5 5 Come and see what God has done,
his awesome deeds for mankind!The Unexpected Adventure- Those Odd Coincidences- Psalm 66:5
At lunch during a conference, Lee was questioned by a skeptic about the relationship between Christianity and a religion, Mithraism. Lee had little knowledge with which to refute the claim that Christianity had plagiarized its beliefs from this other religion. Lee spent a lot of time researching the question before the next day's q and a session. However, the question never arose during the remainder of the conference.
Two weeks later, just as another conference was ending, Mark Mittleberg took one last question from the audience. And guess what? That's right, the question was about Christianity's supposed plagiarism of Mitharaism's beliefs. Mark turned the question over the Lee who, as a result of a lunch-time question from two weeks earlier, was ready with a well-reasoned, insightful answer.
Action Principle- I love the line from page 249- "If you want to increase your own faith, they share your faith with others." As we do so, there will be times we will get a glimpse of "how the Holy Spirit is orchestrating events, encounters and conversations in amazing and inspiring ways." "Coincidences" will not be that, but God orchestrating things the scene in a way to bring fulfillment to His plan.
Some people espouse the idea that there are no coincidences in a believers life. Even the smallest detail of one's life is part of God's intentional, individual play for his/her life. I am not sure how I feel about that, but I do believe that this side of heaven, I will never know what coincidences were just that, or the direct hand of God intervening in my life.
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