On NCIS, Leroy Jethro Gibbs has come up with a set of "rules" he lives by. One of them is that there is no such thing as a coincidence and I agree with him wholeheartedly. So I've started calling them "God-incidences". And I'm noticing them all over the place.
First, this morning I was reading in Genesis (I just started the 90-day Bible reading plan; hoo-boy! That's a time commitment and a half, but I know it's going to be so worth it!) about God's promise to Abraham and then on the way to church, I was listening to the radio and the DJ was talking about the very passages I had just read! And here's the neat little thought he shared: we all make promises; small promises, big promises, but God makes God-sized promises. He told Abraham that he would be a blessing to everyone. Not just the people living on the planet at the time, not just us, but to all people who would seek God through Jesus Christ throughout all time. Pretty amazing, right?
Then, this morning at church, our pastor ended the sermon with the passage James 1:2-4;
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
which was the focus in day one of our homework in a study on the book of James I'm doing with a few other women right now.
I love God-incidences!
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