Accidental or Ordained?

Last Friday in the chapels at Heritage I spoke about Esther and her story in the middle school and another teacher spoke in the high school chapel. It is amazing and I know it may not be something you want to be reminded of, but there is no accident in what happens and what situations we end up in. One of the students spoke about incidents in his life that could be paralleled to Esther, not that they were exact replicas, but that God ordained the situations to happen in the way in which they did. His father died when he was sixteen, completely unexpectedly and Jon was actually not at home or with his family when it happened. The thing is that through all of the things that occurred in his life, Jon is living the life that God has ordained for him to live. One of the things that he said as a comparison to Esther was that had Esther been told five years before everything happened that she would be queen and be a part of saving all the Jews, she would have never believed it. The same was true for Jon. The circumstances of his life, his father passing or even him speaking in the chapel and having the relationship with God that he has, were not things that he would have dreamed of just five years ago. I know that I will never know what you are or have gone through, and I know that we don’t always want to hear it, but God is working through everything and each situation that we are put in, whether it is where we work, the team we are put on, or the cell we are in, God has ordained it and there is a reason that we are in that situation. I don’t believe that things happen by accident; there is a purpose in everything.