You
know how God is. When He thinks you need
to get something, He’ll repeat himself.
I recently experienced this. Within 12 hours, I saw Genesis 5:20
referenced twice.
“You intended to harm me, but God
intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many
lives.” Genesis 50:20 (NIV)
In this verse, Joseph is talking to
his brothers about them selling him to an Egyptian slave trader when he was
young. While their deed was evil, God
used it to put Joseph in a position of power during a famine; there by saving
the lives of his family.
I was discussing this with one of my coworkers and she
said, “Something is going to happen.” Then I had another thought. For those of
you who are not very familiar with me, I have a math/science brain. Don’t laugh and don’t call me Sheldon.
Anyway, when I was in college, I took Discrete
Structures. When the professor put the
programming specs on the board, we had to flowchart out our answer, which
became the program. We had to determine
the questions and each possibility and the possible outcome for each answer. We
had to determine dead ends. I even had my own flowchart template. I think
that’s how I look at life now. Every
time a situation comes up; I flowchart the possible outcomes out in my brain.
That in itself isn’t a bad thing. I totally believe in being responsible, but
at the same time it is an issue of trust with God. Do I trust Him to lead me
through something without flowcharting out all the possibilities? Do I limit my thinking and potential since I
only see certain possibilities whereas God’s are limitless? God may be talking
and working on something out of left field that I haven’t even imagined.
Guess I’ll be retraining my way of thinking. Instead of using my trusty old template, I’ll
take my directional cues from God. After all, only God can take something bad
and make it good.
