Do you ever wonder whether things just happen by chance?

Is life random, or a collection of random events?

I am more and more convinced that it is not.
This is why...

If life is so random...
Why is it that some randomly good things happen to some people?
And then why is it that some random bad things happen to others?
Then others seem to have random combinations of both.
And who or what decided random was supposed to be the ‘norm’ anyway?

I think that when you give someone control of your life, and they have the power to influence it in every way... random really has no place.
If life is random, then random ends up showing who you gave lordship of your life to, has no control at all.
In fact it isn’t lordship at all!

When you give your life to God. When you give yourself to become a disciple of Jesus.
At that moment, random is not a factor for you.
Nothing happens without a reason and purpose.
You now exist beyond circumstance.
You now live a in a realm beyond secondlife, beyond all imagination.
God has control if you want him to, and if you let him...of what is going to transpire.

Take the story in Exodus of Moses being a baby.
The Egyptian’s have demanded that all male babies born to Israelite women be thrown in the Nile to drown.
But Moses’ mum doesn’t want to do that.
Instead she places him in a basket to float instead of drown. Giving what might seem like a random chance to survive. And who rescues the baby?
Pharaohs daughter. From the very family declaring he should die.
And who gets asked to nurse the child?
Moses’ actual mother!
How random is that?

On that face of it, it is totally random. But it is not!
God is in control. You can trust him to work things out exactly the way they need to work out.
When things seem impossible, that is when it seems all the more possible for God.

Your life doesn’t have to be random.
It can be full of purpose, direction and security.
You just have to give it to God.

Something to think about.