Just let stuff happen

"where are you from?"

1 Samuel 30:13

So how do you feel about coincidences?  You a fan?  When it's a good thing, we generally call it a coincidence; as in "You were there too?  What a coincidence!"  But if it's a bad thing, we might call it a freak accident, or a fluke.  

The word "fluke" is a great word.  Do you know it's the word for a whale's tail, and that no whale's tail is exactly like any other?  Sort of like human fingerprints.  So every fluke, is a fluke.

Man, I love words....

Okay, remember the tale of David & his men returning to their camp at Ziklag, only to find out that the Amalekites had carried off all the women and children? Sucks.  Darn those Amalekites...

David and his men were distraught.  Verse 4 of chapter 30 says they wept until they had no more power to weep.  And the men even spoke of stoning David.  As if that would solve the problem.  But I digress...

David, however ~ and this is important ~ David strengthened himself in the Lord (verse 6).  He called the priest to bring him the ephod, which was the closest thing David had to the ark of the covenant.  And he inquired of the Lord as to what to do: "Shall I pursue this troop?  Shall I overtake them?"

When David trusted himself, he made David-led decisions.  But he was trusting in God, and God lead him:  "Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them, and without fail recover all."  So off they set.

And then, in verse 11, David's men just happened to come upon a man, an Egyptian, who just happened to be the servant of an Amalekite, and he just happened to have been left behind by his master because he was too sick to travel.   But it just so happened that he just happened to be with the Amalekites at the time they attacked Ziklag, and he just happened to know where they had gone afterwards. 

And David and his men found the Amalekites, and recovered all their loved ones.

Coincidence?  Not if you ask me.

Strengthen yourself in God, my friends, and watch what happens. 

~ "The humble He guides in justice,

     and the humble He teaches His way" ~

Psalm 25:9