no accidents

Some people cringe at that.
No accidents, that everything happens for a reason....
When real tragedy strikes,
it tends to sting.
If we believe the promise that God works everything to GOOD for those that love him though, then we can trust that He uses EVERYTHING,
every aspect and crumb or our life toward our ultimate purpose
so that we can be what we were destined to be in Him.

At a bible study recently,
Julie brought to light that God knew us before we even existed,
God saw every one of us in that bible study on that night, speaking into each others hearts, lifting each other up and sharing our intimate stories.
There is no accident that we were there and even that certain people couldn't make it and were not there that night.
When we acknowledge that truth,
it is awe inspiring.
You become reverent to every little interaction,
every choice becomes important,
every outing an adventure.
It is no coincidence that you haven't seen Mary in a year and then you see her at the grocery store.
There is even purpose in your thoughts that way,
like thinking of someone out of the blue.
God may want you to reach out to them and contact them in some way, or He may just need you to pray,
but if you are spiritually in tune,
you won't brush it off as "weird",
you will ask Him and follow His lead....
The Holy Spirit is creative and mysterious.
He meant for our lives to be exciting and unexpected in good ways,
and even when they are unexpected in bad ways that shake us to our very core....
He will use what was meant for evil, for good!
He will turn it all around!
Our problem is in being able to be patient with the process,
our problem arises in the ripping and tearing at what WE had in mind.
The more we can abandon our own plans and imaginings for ourselves, the better off.
God promises us that we could never even IMAGINE anything greater than what he has for us....
and we tend to drift toward amazing financial wealth and every single luxury we could imagine, but Heaven doesn't share our same vision.
God's ways are above our ways and His thoughts are above our thoughts....
so because of this he will be taking us to a place much DIFFERENT as well as much better than our own visions.
Trust and faith in that is all you need.
You don't need to try and figure it out and you don't have to DO anything to help it come about.

I think the main goal is to just to become more and more spiritually aware...
there has also been a huge lesson for me in surrender.
If you are able to skooch over and let God drive, life will be so much easier!
He wants you to be able to look out the window and enjoy the ride!
HE will worry about the gas, He will check the oil, He will stay alert and get you there.
Just trust him to drive you, and then relax.
It was the way he designed it!

So life will present all these predetermined situations where we will choose to be spiritually aware or not.
We will miss a lot of divine appointments that God presents to us by simply being distracted or self absorbed...
but He designed many situations over time, many safe guards to teach us and mold us and love on people in our own time, and in His perfect time too.
There is an insane elaborate network occurring at every moment that I would imagine would look very similar to the Internet if we could see it working.
The capability and the magnitude of what He is accomplishing and doing in trillions of lives in one SECOND is unfathomable.
Trust that He knew before you even WERE.
He loved you before you existed and His intentions are always for your BEST,
He values you and every step that you take in a way that you'll never fully grasp because no one on earth is capable of loving you like that.
Every tear that falls from your eyes, is not lost on Him.
His compassion and care for you is bursting from his heart and His grace and mercy washes over you constantly.
The motion of His love is swirling around us,
but instead of spinning against it with our own ideas,
He wants us to stand there and feel it and accept it and all the beauty that comes with it that propels us forward by His own power,
His love flowing out through us, spiritually designed for greatness,
ours and His.

~C

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