I Certainly Don't Believe In Coincidence... Page 3
somehow within the first ten minutes of sitting down, we were talking about our shared faith. One thing this man, who held my future in his hands, said to me resonated strong, and will continue to. Somehow the conversation got on faith and, get this, trusting God. This was his statement to me that I will never forget. “If you aren’t asking God every single day ‘God, what are you doing here,’ your faith probably isn’t what it should be.” Fair point, I’ll ask the question.
The interview ended exactly like my first, the open positions were farther away from my house than I could commute, but they wanted to have some people ready if things were to move around during the holidays. Here we go again. The interview was a ways away from home, so I had a long drive. I started my prayer with The Lord’s Prayer, as I had since that Sunday sermon weeks before that got the ball rolling on all of this. Then I just kept asking that question over and over again. Then I asked it again. Then one more time. Then I was falling asleep on my couch. I asked it a lot of times. “God, what are you doing here? I quit my job. I have full faith that you are working in this situation, but what is next?”
The Next Chapter – The First Chapter
As if things couldn’t line up more perfectly, they have. I was awoken from that sleep on the couch by a phone call from my wife’s step-father, Brad. Brad and I are very close, and I have a lot of respect for him. He is a Godly man, and has a lot of life experience that a young man like myself can really benefit from hearing. Brad recently took on a business… challenge… we will call it. A company has hired him to help turn their business around and make it more profitable. Brad had talked to me once about coming to work for that company, but I wasn’t so interested.
There was one thing I realized after my last interview. I was still looking at retail jobs. That wasn’t going to change anything for me, I was ready for something different, but wasn’t looking outside of my comfort zone. I don’t think another retail job would make me happy, plus at this point my wife and I had decided we wanted to be members at Mount Paran North Canton, and my Sundays with people are going to be important going forward, so this time I listened a little more. It just so happens that the warehouse manager for the company he is working with stepped down. Brad will tell you, God has him in this business for some reason, and he doesn’t know what it is. Well, now I’m there with him. I started this next week as the warehouse manager, and now God has me there for a reason.
That is a lot of stuff that has fallen into place perfectly, none of which I think is coincidence. I certainly don’t believe in coincidence. I have no idea who this story is for, but God isn’t just doing this stuff for me. My story is meant to be shared, and it may touch someone I don’t even know. I’ll tell you one thing, I believe with my whole heart that these seven sections will eventually be condensed into one chapter, and it will be the first chapter of something bigger than you or I can imagine. I don’t know how we are going to get there, but I’m pumped. One thing is for sure; there won’t be any coincidences along the way.