No Coincidences

Thursday morning, I was in a rush, had to get some bills out in the mail due on Friday, a luncheon to hurry to, much on my mind ...  Then, it happened, KA-BOOM!!!!!

I am at the post office drive through, car door open since the windows are broken, dropping the precious mail to starve off the bankers for another month.  Four feet higher than me and one hundred feet to my right in a strip mail, a series of store fronts for the local car license agency, a dry cleaners and my friend's coin shop.  The noise was generated by a car going through one of those store fronts!

"Luckily", the car impacted and drove into a recently vacated store.  The store had moved to the north end of the strip mall.  And everyone commented, "How lucky!"

You see only a week ago that window the car is sticking out of, was where an elderly 80 something secretary had sat for the past several decades.  She never would have been able to get out of the way; would most definitely have been killed.  How "lucky" indeed.

As for the driver, a 76 year old man, whom became confused momentarily and hit the gas instead of the brake.  He was shaken up but not injured.  His daughter came and got him.

The building?  Well, the post by the left rear of the car is broken and is the door frame, window of course gone and the front wall damaged.  Else, well, this was a very "lucky" incident...  It could have been worse, the car could have also hit the Jeep which had been parked on the right side of the parking slot - my friend was standing and smoking a cigarette there.  Yeah, it could have been a real tragedy...

And I am again reminded that there are NO coincidences in life.  It was no oddity of nature that the business in that spot for decades moved to another location the week before this happened.  It was not that lady's time to die.  It was no mistake that the car missed the Jeep which would have crushed my friend with even a glancing blow.  He still has not yet had his last chance to accept Jesus as his Savior, yet.  And what if the guy had accidentally done that in reverse, instead of in forward?  That car would have leapt the short curb, taken the top of my car off and made a mess out of me for the postal workers to clean up.

And as everyone just stood there, frozen, my mind was racing, remembering all of the other "coincidences" I have encountered in life.  And there are none.  IF God is in control of your life, everything will happen for a reason - or He will provide a reason to use what you create for His good and ultimately for your good by extension, though it may seem inconceivable at the time!

Whether it was my oldest daughter's boyfriend being squashed in the remains of his car - and surviving, or me being splatted by a speeding truck and breaking my spine, or a 76 year old man loosing control of his car - God does use each and everyone of those incidents to work towards His perfection in you or other's impacted by what happened.

No one woke up Thursday morning and thought, "Wow, I really would like to total out a building today before lunch!"  But, these things do happen - not necessarily by design, but the outcomes always will be.  We have a God whom is quite adept at that!

I wonder how many non-coincidences you can find in your life in just the next twelve hours ... hmmm?