[This reflection by David Makanjuola was published in the weekly news bulletin of Horley Baptist Church, 11/Jun/2023]
I was at work, up on the 6th floor and needed to head back to the offices, which meant going down to the ground floor. I could have walked down the stairs – much more fun than going up them, but I thought, no need to burn off calories pointlessly, so I decided to go down in the lift instead.
As I stepped out on the ground floor, I noticed an elderly Asian lady who looked a bit worried. I asked her whether I could help. She was not fluent, but I was able to make out, as she showed me the paper in her hand, that she was trying to get to one of the departments and couldn’t find it. She was stressed as she was about to be late for her appointment. I took her back up in the lift to the second floor, walked her to the department and when she said a relieved thank you, it sounded very fluent.
I walked away pondering, with questions like ‘What if I’d taken the stairs?’. ‘What if I had decided to stop at the first floor instead of the ground floor?’ ‘What if…….?’
If you think that was a ‘one off’, I don’t, because a similar thing happened to me again this morning and I am sure it’s not just me that it happens to.
When these ‘What if’ moments happen, we call them coincidences. You will however have heard that coincidences are sometimes called ‘God incidences’.
We are currently doing a preaching series at church on what is termed our Front lines. I am particularly excited about this, as it helps us take God along with us from Sunday into Monday and all the days of the week.
So, this week, when you find yourself in situations where you realise God has guided your footsteps there for a reason, I would like to ask you to trust Him to give you His wisdom and His grace, so that your words and your actions will prove to be a channel for His blessings to the people you meet. The great thing about those ‘What if’ instances, I have found, is that you are also blessed by them.
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Contributed by David Makanjuola; © David Makanjuola