Is it really random?

 As usual, such a writing would often end up in my journal but I said let me share. Sooo, I don't know what has happened in your life that has seemed so random/unplanned. You've probably met someone and as you guys recount how you met you've probably been like we met in the most bizarre circumstances. If you have watched soap operas before then you know about this famous scene where two characters would be walking down the hallway and they hit each other, books fall, as they pick them up, they stare at each other and then fall in love. Seems unplanned, non?

I think I had the same encounter(my telenovela moment) but no books were involved or knocking anyone's things and I didn't fall in love, unfortunately.  When I told my friend about it cause I found the experience fascinating, he was like "Sasa wewe, do your brain cells even work? That was all planned! That guy planned everything!" And that is how my castles were brought down and it made sense! Maybe then.. everything is planned and not random. I am sure you want details about my encounter, hit me up and I might share the whole experience.

Today I will try and explore the simple statement that God does not operate randomly, He is a prepared father with plans. I have changed my views about so many things when I started thinking about this statement. As I look back at many things, people I've encountered in my life, and places that God has positioned me to be in, I realize how that could never be random at all, His fingerprints and hand is seen all over.

In Jeremiah  1:4

The Word of the Lord came to me saying,

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart, I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.

The LORD is speaking to Jeremiah and assuring him that his assignment of being a prophet did not start with him. He knew everything from the beginning about his life.

Once we start living in the realization that this life did not start with us and they are prepared works we ought to do, I feel that something will shift in us. 

Ephesians 2:10: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

My mum's friend told me to read the whole story about Joseph and it's a fascinating story. Look at the life of Joseph, he was born to bring solutions to a completely foreign land. He went to Egypt through the most uncomfortable conditions, as a slave. However, even in being a slave, his life still spoke of God's power and faithfulness. We can say then that, God knew that there was going to be this famine probably 30 years to come before even Joseph was born and as he was looking for someone to fulfill His will, he decided that Joseph would be the solution that the Egyptians needed. God was confident that he would be able to carry out his assignment well. But remember that with the free will that we have, he could have chosen to fall in the face of temptations. Samson was to be an answer during his time and he did fall. Are you able to steward your assignment well? And you are probably asking Sasa what is even that assignment. As we pursue Christ, we get to know about our truest selves. You can decipher the burdens that God has placed in your heart for maybe a people or a generation etc. 

If you take a keen look at the lives of Daniel, Esther, and Jesus it speaks of the same thing, These people were able to submit their lives to God and were able to do exploits at their age, 

Daniel and Joseph were really young people going through wild experiences. In foreign lands, they are like refugees,  everything was new to them, and they were also in nations that did not honor Yahweh, and yet they still kept their faith. This mirrors the age that we are living in: Babylon could be the circle of your friends, your family, your classmates, etc.

Exactly! Sometimes your assignment will not always be in this beautiful office working as a lawyer where everybody is glorifying God. It might be in places where you are the only person that is saved and you have to work under people or with people doing the craziest of stuff.

And in such circumstances, are you still going to stand out? Will you live a life that is going to inspire this person to start asking about who is your God? Or will you be chill as usual, say that aki God si you know I am still your own but hapa joh itabidi nimecheza chini, and therefore you go on and compromise.

I have compromised a lot of times btw! I have fallen and almost fell in disasters many times and God is a loving father and he takes me back. However, I remembered this word by Stephanie Ike, she said that if I keep on going in that cycle of living recklessly and entertaining the enemy then  I will never live to the fullness of what God has called me to be. Time! We do not have the luxury of it. The more you pursue other things, the less time you have to actually do what you really should be doing! It is worth noting that you might be doing something and it's not really in God's will because some things do not really glorify God there, yet God is still sustaining you but it doesn't mean that He approves of it.

I am just reminding myself that maybe the time to actually make a choice between life and death is now. There should be no grey areas we can either be fully in or fully out. I don't think procrastination will do me or you good! Make a choice, I made mine.

Deuteronomy 30:19(NLT) Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life so that you and your descendants might live

I definitely veered off the main topic of discussion but my conclusion is life's not random. We are here to glorify God, that's our biggest assignment and as we pursue Christ we get to know our truest selves better and discover what we really ought to do in life.

 Not related but I am taking a very wild class right now in college called Angels and Demons and I think I'll write about the things that I have learned as it pertains to my walk with Christ. Ciao!