Not A Bunch Of Chance Happenings

Thursday, March 31, 2011 Reading: John 17:1-5 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john%2017&version=NIV Reflection: In our passage this morning Jesus states that "the hour" has come. In other words, the long-awaited moment when the Son of God offers Himself up as a sin offering has finally arrived. The result will be the reversal of the curse of Eden; the restoration of relationship with God and man; the presence of peace not only between man and God but between one person and another. What is interesting to me is the realization that this moment doesn't come as one of an entire series of chance happenings. Rather, God has been planning for this moment since the moment of the fall. In fact, longer than that! God planned all of this before He even created the world. God has patiently but deliberately moved human history through time until we have arrived at the moment of Jesus' glorification of the Father, and the Father's glorification of Jesus. In the same way, all these chance happenings in my life are not really chance happenings. They may seem to be the result of a whole series of coincidences, but in reality God is moving my life, and the life of every person, through time until we arrive at the final return of His son. God is on the throne...He is in control...He is moving history in a direction...every event has a purpose and a reason...and so do I. So, let's get out there today and see a bit of history unfold through what we say and do!