Coincidence?

Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them. - Psalm 139:16

I must admit that nearly half of everything I experience seems like some sort of chance happening. Life just seems to simply happen to us. It doesn't feel planned, rather much more random and chaotic.

Looking back on the last couple years, I can remember vividly those moments when I felt this way. The moments seemed insignificant at the time, just a chance encounter or such. In hindsight, it's these very moments that have shaped much of who I am and even where I am now.

I'm realizing now that nothing is left up to chance. (Yes, it's taken me this long.) Everything, every meeting, every interaction, every place I visit and every person I pass in the street, it is all planned by God. There's nothing that happens that God misses or forgets. He plans it all.

Life, (somehow), gets much easier when you realize this and rest in it. When you see that God has planned everything and rest only in His plans, suddenly, there is nothing left to worry about. (Of course, resting in it is what we all struggle with!)

As I go through yet another season of change and find myself feeling the weight of many different decisions, I'm reminded once again to be still and rest in Him. I'm reminded of the scripture:

Commit your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him, and He will do it. - Psalm 37:5

Whatever you're going through right now, know that God is with you, God is for you and God has a plan to use this season for mighty things in your life. Nothing is left to chance. Nothing is a coincidence. God is with you every step of the way.