Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty? Job 11:7 Discover can be serendipity. SERENDIPITY (from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd Edition) means: The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. We are indebted to the English author Horace Walpole for coining the word serendipity. In one of his 3,000 or more letters, and specifically in a letter of January 28, 1754, Walpole says, "This discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word."
Walpole formed the word on an old name for Sri Lanka, Serendip. He explained the name was part of a fairy tale title, called The Three Princes of Serendip. In the story the princes traveled, always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things, which they were not in search of from the beginning. One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental sagacity was of my Lard Shaftsbury, who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Claredon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at the table."
Have you noticed in your life the things taking place happen for a specific reason? Is it possible the attack on America is for serendipity to take place? Meaning for us to discover God and to pray to Him and look to Him for help. Many people were focused on material things. Taking life for granted. Some walked out of the house for the last time and didn’t tell someone they loved them or how much they mean to them in their life.
How often do we go through life walking aimlessly in our little world and don’t notice the beauty that surrounds us until something happens to awaken us. We need to be like Columbus in the effect of becoming courageous people and allowing the effects of serendipity to take place. When is the last time you have discovered God being in your life? Have you sat still for a moment or are you to busy to ignore the issues in your life? Why turn to the alcohol? Why turn to drugs? Why turn to work and allow everyday atrocities to blind the discovery of peace. It’s time to focus on the signs around us. It’s time to be still. "Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth." Psalms 46:10.
Let us begin to discover the blessing in Christ. When one loses oneself in Christ and looks to Christ in everything, then the signs will appear, and your need for signs decreases. If one is truly in Christ, then one’s answers come through trust, through faith in Him. One then knows and trusts that things happen not in our time, but in God’s time.
One stops and considers the signs around, the obvious ones and the silent ones, and trusts that God is in control. Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? "For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds. "Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom." Matthew 16:24-28
Let’s discover the love of God (We have come to know and have believed the love, which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:16) and let’s begin a life of peace and from the serendipitous life with God, he will never let you down. See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and {such} we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 1 John 3:1
It is amazing. How do you build your faith? You have to keep discovering the paths of God. He will show you what he desires. You do not need a light to find your path for his word is His light for our path.
