Keep Track of God’s Involvement in the Every Day—Part 8
Unusual Linkage or “Timing
A third God Hunt category is unusual linkage or timing, such as when David hid in the very cave Saul decided to rest in. It was too perfect to be mere chance.
Unusual linkage and timing is getting on an almost empty airplane and sitting across the aisle from someone who desperately wants to know about Jesus and how to personally meet Him. God has provided an almost private setting and an hour and a half flight during which you are able to lead the person to the cross.
Help to Do His Work
A last God Hunt category is what we call help to do His work in the world. It’s having a new family attend the church with the very skills needed to replace those of a strong couple who have just moved out of town. It’s having a friend call and share a story that works perfectly for the closing illustration in a Sunday School lesson you’ve been working on. It’s saying, as David did, “I need a friend, Lord—a friend who’s like a brother. This future kingship assignment You’ve given me isn’t an easy one.” And the Lord responds, “David, I’ve prepared the king’s son, Jonathan, to be that friend to you.”
Those God Hunt categories, again, are:
- An obvious answer to prayer
- Unexpected evidence of His care
- Any unusual linkage or timing
- Help to do God’s work in the world.
Occasionally a God Hunt sighting will fit several categories. That’s no problem. And sometimes a sighting is almost in a category of its own. Don’t worry about that either.
What’s important is the belief that the Lord is constantly calling to us, “Seek Me. I’m here. I’m not that hard to find. Just look a little. Come on, now!”
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