More Than A Coincidence?

Do you believe in coincidence?

 

Can you take a meaningful situation and rationalize it down to merely nothing?

 

I used to.

 

I am realizing how good I am at rationalizing things away and reducing things down to merely coincidence. 

 

I believe in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit and that all 3 of them are actively working in my life at every moment. 

 

I am realizing though that I have not been living in a way that showed that I believed that they were an active part of my life.

 

Especially the Holy Spirit. 

 

I grew up Pentecostal, so the Holy Spirit was always that weird thing that made people speak in tongues. 

 

Yes that is part of it, but the Holy Spirit is what was given to us to lead us through this life. 

 

I am someone who can rationalize the works of the Holy Spirit away faster than fast. 

 

Last week a friend from college kept popping into my mind on random occasions. 

 

I remember thinking this is weird that I keep thinking about her, maybe I will just write her on Facebook and see how she is doing.

 

In my mind it was just an old friend popping up and there wasn't a whole lot of significance to it.

 

I ended up writing her and when she wrote me back it turns out that she had been thinking about me all week too and had been meaning to Facebook me as well. 

 

We had lots of good stuff to talk about. 

 

Coincidence or the Holy Spirit putting someone in my mind to get in contact with? 

 

The first night in our living area for the month one of my teammates was showering and the faucet was on full blast and no matter what we did it wouldn't turn off. 

 

The drain was clogged and the water was inches away form overflowing everywhere. 

 

My cell phone was out of service and we were a mile away from anyone to help us. 

 

In a place where I had no other options I said " Jesus I don't know what to do. Please send someone or this whole house is going to flood."

 

Literally 20 seconds later a maintenance man knocked on the door to ask me a question and was able to help. 

 

Coincidence or Jesus helping his daughter in need out? 

 

Driving in a car that has no indoor lighting in an area that was pitch black I lost my team emergency cell phone that I have to have on me.

 

I couldn't find it anywhere.

 

"Jesus where is my cell phone?" 

 

Seconds later I receive a txt that made my phone beep and light up. 

 

Just being lucky or Jesus?

 

Four days ago I would have read this and said "This is some overly spiritual Jesus person who needs to just find the cell phone she lost and stop acting like Jesus really cares if she finds it or not." 

 

I even kind of feel a little crazy typing this out right now, but Jesus is really showing me that He is actively involved in so many areas of my life.

 

I just either rationalize it away, brush it off as coincidence or just don't come to Him with things I think He doesn't care about. 

 

He is showing me that He does care about everything, He does talk to me, He does put things and people on my heart so that I do something about it and He is always there and I can always call on Him. 

 

He is actively involved in our lives.

 

Every part!

 

We usually just call it something else. 

 

All I know is that when things like the above stories keep happening to me on a regular basis, I can't help but believe and know that it is something way bigger than coincidence. 

 

It is Jesus!