THIS IS NO ACCIDENT by Ray Prinzing

“Even though at present you are temporarily harassed by all kinds of trials and temptations.  This is no accident – it happens to prove your faith, which is infinitely more valuable than gold, and gold, as you know, even though it is ultimately perishable, must be purified by fire.  This proving of your faith is planned to result in praise and honour and glory in the day when Jesus Christ reveals Himself.” (I Peter 1:6-7, Phillips)

This is no accident.  It is a HAPPENING that is PLANNED to prove your faith!  The responsibility is God’s, according to His plan and purpose being wrought out in us, that we might be found to His praise.  Let us not be so quick to look for secondary causes, and forget that God is working out all things after the counsel of His own will.  Nor did He just allow it, nay, HE PLANNED IT.  We need to know wherein we stand, and in Whom we believe, else we shall not be able to stand in the “evil day”.  But knowing that whatever shall touch our lives in the days, months, years to come, is in the purpose of God, under His sovereign control, ant that IT IS NO ACCIDENT, then we can rest in His power and sufficiency to bring us through victoriously.  All our circumstances are not just casually permitted; they are planned in His love.

No wonder it is written, “neither give place to the devil”, (Eph. 3:27).  You cannot be GOD-CONSCIOUS and devil-conscious at the same time.  Since God is working in His elect to bring them to that place where “the prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me”, (John 14:30), it is obvious that all the ‘place’ in our minds where we have given room to the negative must be purged, and Christ totally enthroned, so that He alone fills our being with His consciousness.

Predetermined counsel working, ‘Tis the Father’s will for thee,
And no accident can happen, what He planned is what you see.

From our God all things receiving, single eye, in faith to stand,
Strengthened with the blest assurance, none can pluck us from His hand.