Sometimes people have some really great luck. I mean, they couldn't be any luckier sometimes, even if they wore a shirt made of four-leaf clovers, and were picking up pennies all the time, and had a house filled with horseshoes.
For example, there's Shane, one of the people I know from church. One of the boys was goofing around, and just for fun, picked up Shane and tried to flip him. Unfortunately, he messed up somehow, and instead Shane fell, and his head collided on the edge of a concrete slab. For a brief moment we all looked at Shane on the ground, the concrete chipped where his head hit it. Then he got up, seeming unharmed. There was no shattered skull, no concussion, no blood. A bit of hair came out, and that was it. He was laughing about the whole incident. I'm quite certain that his head is indestructible.
For example, there's Shane, one of the people I know from church. One of the boys was goofing around, and just for fun, picked up Shane and tried to flip him. Unfortunately, he messed up somehow, and instead Shane fell, and his head collided on the edge of a concrete slab. For a brief moment we all looked at Shane on the ground, the concrete chipped where his head hit it. Then he got up, seeming unharmed. There was no shattered skull, no concussion, no blood. A bit of hair came out, and that was it. He was laughing about the whole incident. I'm quite certain that his head is indestructible.
Perhaps it gives that passage in Ephesians a whole new meaning. Put on the gospel armor, and even your friend accidentally dropping you head-first onto concrete shall not harm you.
And of course, there's other examples besides Shane's adamant skeleton. My brother once rolled his car. The car was totaled. My brother, on the other hand, only had a few scratches and bruises. One of my friends got into a car accident several months ago. Her car was wrecked, and all she got was a small mark on her neck where the seat belt chafed her skin.
And of course, there's other examples besides Shane's adamant skeleton. My brother once rolled his car. The car was totaled. My brother, on the other hand, only had a few scratches and bruises. One of my friends got into a car accident several months ago. Her car was wrecked, and all she got was a small mark on her neck where the seat belt chafed her skin.
Another instance happened a few weeks ago. Someone was having financial difficulties, and was low on money. On her way out of church, a woman she barely knew approached her. The woman handed her a check folded in half and said, "God told me to give this to you. Don't look at it now, just take it." Upon getting into the car, she opened the check and saw that the woman had given her a check for a few hundred dollars.
A friend of mine was planning to go to college. She prayed for help with the funding, and signed up for multiple scholarship offers. At the high school graduation ceremony, she received scholarship after scholarship, winding up with around ten thousand dollars toward her college tuition.
Luck, blessings, the hand of providence, however you choose to word it, is working in people's lives all the time. It occurs in the most amazing ways, sometimes at the most unexpected times.
If anyone has a story to share, feel free to comment below.
A friend of mine was planning to go to college. She prayed for help with the funding, and signed up for multiple scholarship offers. At the high school graduation ceremony, she received scholarship after scholarship, winding up with around ten thousand dollars toward her college tuition.
Luck, blessings, the hand of providence, however you choose to word it, is working in people's lives all the time. It occurs in the most amazing ways, sometimes at the most unexpected times.
If anyone has a story to share, feel free to comment below.
Luck, blessings, Providence... oh, my, the stories I could tell.
ReplyDeleteOnce, my family and I visited a small church. We're missionaries, and at that time we were raising support (even just prayer support-- that counts, people!!)
When we arrived, my family and I literally doubled the congregation. We sang a song, told about the mission field, etc.
And at the end of the service each of us-- all seven of us at the time-- were given a hundred dollars. My dad was given a check for I don't remember how much.
Another time we were staying in an apartment of an addiction's-program's facilities. Sometime in November, this guy knocks on the door... and we still can't figure out how he did it because he had a turkey in one hand and a chicken in the other... and says, "Hey, guys, can you use these? Somebody gave each of us these two and there's four guys next door. We can't eat it all!"
We had turkey that night.
Another time, we were traveling down a back-country road. Imagine something out of a WWII movie and that's the kind of road this was. The side of the road farthest away from the mountain caved out from under our vehicle, and we were stranded. It just SO HAPPENED that we were near a house (howbeit abandoned) and found some fenceposts to prop the vehicle up. It just SO HAPPENED that the car coming a few hours behind us stopped to help. It just SO HAPPENED that the passenger in that car was the sister of a friend.
Oh, my. Nothing just happens. God is good, that's what happens.