The Reason Beyond the Reason

There are times when we come to some place, or choose to enter into a set of circumstances for one reason only to find out that God had another reason.  At the beginning of my adult years I chose Young Harris College as a place to begin my college education, but as I look back at those years, I know that one of the reasons God led me to that place was to begin laying a spiritual foundation.  Most of the times those moments of revelation come through hindsight, but there are also those times when we know we stand in the midst of such a moment.  

When we sense within us that there is a reason beyond the reason that has brought us to a certain place or moment in our life, it is time for us to focus on being attentive to the present moment and to ask the Holy Spirit to help us know and see what is for the moment not known and not seen, but unfolding in the realm of the invisible.  When Saul of Tarsus watched the stoning of Stephen and held the coats of the stone throwers, he no doubt saw it as a moment of driving another nail in the coffin of Christianity, but God had another reason Saul could not yet see for putting him inside that moment.   

It is important to remember that things are not always what they might seem to be.  What we see as something which makes no sense may indeed be a part of the greater plan of what God is moving toward accomplishing. Our trip to the grocery store may be to buy food, but God may have someone standing in the produce section who needs a word of kindness.  Being in worship every Sunday may be so predictable we wonder if going is worth it and the Sunday of our doubt may be the Sunday when some life changing word is going to be spoken.  As believers in Jesus we know that there is more to our life than what is apparent for God dwells within us and has things He wants us to be about for His Kingdom.  Our reasons for being somewhere may be mundane.  His reasons for our being there may be eternal.