Divine Appointments

We tend to look at things through the lens of self-interest. We make choices that benefit ourselves. We decide whether or not to help someone else based on how it will impact us. We ask God to bless our interests and activities. 

When things don't go our way, when the outcome overrides our input or when God doesn't answer our prayer in the affirmative - we become frustrated, fearful or angry.

If, however, we could learn to look at things from the perspective of God's overarching rule and universal concern, we would realize that we are not the center of the universe and everything cannot and should not be about us. 

What if we began to see our activities in the light of divine appointments instead of a personal agenda. What if we began to wonder when asked by a stranger for help, "Why does God have me here with this individual?"  "Is this intersection a random meeting or an appointment set by God?

What if every day we began to ask what God might have in store for us as he works for the ultimate good of all his children and all creation?  What if we began to pray for His will to be done (Matt 6:10) instead of our own?

Remember WWJD?  What would Jesus do?  Listen to his words: "Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does" (John 5:19).  Jesus would seek out and do his Father's will. He saw everything as a divine appointment. 

Jesus was not interested in self-promotion but rather the advancement of the Kingdom of God and the fulfillment of God's will in his life. What would it look like to truly follow him.  To look for divine appointments along the way daily?   Jus' Askn.