Good Morning Friends,
“I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to
the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance
happen to them all. Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come: As fish are
caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by
evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.” (Ecclesiastes 9:11-12)
Life doesn’t always work out the way it seems
like it should. Many things in life are determined not by a person’s inherent
talents and abilities but by what we might call chance.
Bill Gates is a very smart man, but he is not
more brilliant than many others his age. There is a great deal of chance in
Gates’ tremendous success.
Barak Obama is not smarter, wiser, stronger,
or more politically astute than all others in America. There is a great deal of
chance that has brought Obama to the presidency.
Consider your own life: is it your own
brilliance, strength, or talent that has enabled you to accomplish all that
you’ve done? Or is it your own weaknesses and mistakes that have kept you down?
To some extent, perhaps, but much of your life has been determined not by
talent, but by chance. Why were you born in the United States instead of Haiti
or Afghanistan? It’s not something that
you determined, not something that came to you because of your innate
abilities, it was simply chance.
Or perhaps it isn’t chance! Perhaps it is
God’s sovereign choice that put you where you are. So the question is, if it is
God’s sovereign choice that put Obama in the White House, Gates in the position
he is in, and each of us where we are, then -- what will we do with what God
has given us? How will we use the position and place in which He has put us to
His Kingdom purposes?
His, by Grace,
Steve
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