No Such Thing As Coincidences

This is the time of year we reflect on our lives. It’s a new year, how was the past one? What do we want to change? What should we keep the same? Like most of you, I’ve been thinking about this past year. As I do, I see God’s fingerprints all over my life.

In the believer’s life, there is no such thing as coincidences. In the believer’s life, God is moving throughout their life, making things happen, showing them things, teaching them things. A friend just wrote me a Christmas card, telling me how God was working in her life. It was a reaction to my post using Romans 8:28. That God works out all things for good for those who love Him. I see that so clearly throughout the past year. It’s clearly not coincidences. It’s clearly not luck or happenstance. For the believer, it is clearly God’s hand upon our lives.

I think of my nephew who now plays football for Azuza Pacific University. It wasn’t a coincidence that my husband happened to be in the same Bible study group as the Offensive Line coach for Azuza. That was a confirmation to my sister who was trying to figure out where my nephew should go for college.

It wasn’t a coincidence that during my car accident I just so happened to have my cell phone with me that I carry only half the time. It wasn’t a coincidence that my neighbor happened to come out and talk to me during the accident and remind me to take pictures of everything.

It wasn’t a coincidence that something inside of me told me to draw a line in the sand and make sure my son wore his helmet before skateboarding. The same activity, in which he spun out of control and broke his wrist in two places. If he didn’t have his helmet, it could’ve have been his head.

It wasn’t a coincidence when I was late coming out of school, when I was seven years old, to go home and find our house had been robbed. We were so relieved when the cops told us if we had come home any earlier we would have been killed. We would’ve interrupted the robbers. He had seen it happen all the time.

It wasn’t a coincidence when I heard a voice in my head to call my sister-in-law right at that moment. Right at that moment, when she needed a distraction.

It wasn’t a coincidence, when I just happen to read the homeschool catalog that mentions a book I needed to help my daughter with reading.

If you are a believer, look at your life. Notice the times when you arrived too soon or too late to something, but it worked out perfectly. The times when you mentioned something to someone just in passing, and that someone had answers for the questions you had at that moment. The times when you meet someone and somehow they are connected to someone else in your life and that friendship benefits the other person.

Look at your life, believer, and see what God has done. Note all those “coincidences” and thank Him for what He has done in your life. We’re supposed to count our blessings, but go further. Look for the coincidences in your life and see God’s fingerprints on your life. I guarantee it will greatly encourage you.