Not by Chance

Life is not by chance but by design.

Chance means the absence of any obvious design.  I recently have had a number of timely connections that remind me this life is not by chance.  There is purpose in the series of occurrences we find.  It’s not by chance that a friend calls just when we needed some encouragement.  It’s not by chance that you didn’t get the job you thought you wanted that sets you up for a better one.  It’s not by chance that you met that person who has a similar story as yours.  We often chalk things up to chance or coincidence.  But, what if we saw the design in all of it? You can only render so many things as chance before there’s no room for chance anymore.  What if even the things that have not shown any design yet are still purposeful.  Each season of our life is preparing us for something next.  This life is not by chance, your story is not by chance and who you are is not by chance.  No, who you are is a careful, purposeful design.  

“…declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’…I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.”

Isaiah 46:10-11 ESV

Isaiah prophesies of both the destruction and the glory of the days to come.  His prophesy reveals that both the judgment and the victories to come are not by coincidence, but rather by God’s design.  I recently found that the word coincidence is the Greek word synkyrian, which is a combination of the words: sun and kurios.  Sun means 'together with,' and kurious means 'supreme in authority.’ So when you put them together it means that  “what occurs together by God’s providential arrangement of circumstances.”” (gotquestions.org/Bible-coincidence.html#ixzz3VRPI1gbb).  This sounds much different than our definition of coincidence which means to be without any connection.  God’s purposeful design is at work in your lives in the hard parts and the awesome parts.  We can trust the One who purposefully designed us to keep designing something purposefully beautiful with our lives.  He has spoken and He is faithful so He will do it.