Coincidence

[gogiggen]

This was written by my Bible teacher, posted on his website www.cobg.org . The man that wrote this is the wisest man I know,andhas truley been'broken'.
Coincidence:
Why is it that when something that we want to happen, actually happens, when everything falls into place the way we hoped it would, we are amazed at the hand of God at work in our circumstances. Our testimony: "œCoincidence? No way! It"™s God"™s perfect will!"�
Yet, when something happens that we don"™t want to happen, or something happens that we don"™t want to accept as God"™s will, we deny that it could just as easily be God"™s hand at work"”His will being worked out in our lives and in the lives of those we love. We are so convinced of our own infallibility and omniscience that we refuse to acknowledge that it was not circumstantial in this case either. What happened was not the outcome of unfortunate circumstance or uncontrollable coincidences that caught God off guard. Just because we don"™t like it, we too often become the enemy of God"™s plan, an undermining force against His will. We want to control God, to manipulate Him to do our bidding. And, sadly, because He"™s not here to manipulate and control, we arrogantly try to control others and our circumstances to fit our view of God"™s will. We know what"™s best; He certainly doesn"™t. And I wonder why I"™m so miserable"”and why everybody else I claim to love is miserable when they"™re around me.
God is either in control or He isn"™t. And we all know that He is"”whether we like what He"™s doing or not. When I try to play God instead of trust God, it"™s a very poor bit of drama.
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[MOTOWNHONKEY]

Well spoken.

[manuman]

Look at the life of Joseph. The more he did right, the worse things, circumstances became. Yet, in all of his difficulties, there was a plan, and he recognized it when he said to his brothers, after they recognized him and were afraid that he would be vengeful, that what they meant for harm, God meant for good. As a result of a long , difficult time of setback after setback, imprisonment, betrayals, and harsh treatment, Joseph's trials led him to be in place to bring the solution for the famine that was coming their way. His faithfulness during these times led to the saving from starvation, not only of his family, but literally millions of lives. We should always trust His pal, and the fact that He si in control. whether we can see it or undrstand it at the time or not. I know--easier said than done, but as it says in the NT, that these things written in teh OT werew ritten for our examples, so thatwe could recognize His ways, which are antithetical to what may 'seem' right to us at the time.