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**Daily Devotional**
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. ?Proverbs 3:6
Huang, a nonbeliever, was a visiting scientist at the University of Minnesota in 1994. While there, he met some Christians and enjoyed their fellowship. So when they learned he would be returning to Beijing, they gave him the name of a Christian to contact who was also moving there.
On the flight back to Beijing, the plane encountered engine trouble and stopped in Seattle overnight. The airline placed Huang in the same room with the very person he was to contact! Once they arrived in Beijing, the two began meeting weekly for a Bible study, and a year later Huang gave his life to Christ. This was not just a mere happening; it was by God?s arrangement.
In Ruth 2, we read that Ruth came ?to the part of the field belonging to Boaz? (v.3). Boaz asked his servants who she was (v.5), which prompted his special consideration toward her. When Ruth asked him the reason for such kindness, Boaz replied, ?It has been fully reported to me, all that you have done for your mother-in-law . . . . The Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given you? (vv.11-12).
Did the events in the lives of Ruth and Huang just happen? No, for none of God?s people can escape God?s plans to guide and to provide. ? Albert Lee
I know who holds the future,
And I know who holds my hand;
With God things don?t just happen?
Everything by Him is planned. ?Smith
A ?mere happening? may be God?s design.