Coincidences

I keep noticing all of these strange and fantastic coincidences in my life.

I was meeting with a beautiful friend earlier and she told me she had been praying for me and our time together and felt called to Ephesians. She felt there was something there for me. She was still searching, but she was particularly struck by Paul's discussion of Christ transforming our lives--we cannot be who we were before because we have to die to our old lives to follow Christ.

We die to sin in order to live for Christ.

Little did she know I had been reading Ephesians all week to prepare for Bible study and for letters I was writing to all of the girls in my college girls Bible study.

These coincidences are so cool when we notice them, and when I shared that with her we were both in awe at how clearly we could see the Lord's hand in it.

I had been reading the parts of Ephesians that talked about relationships, but I have been fascinated with the idea of being a new creation for a while now (it is the title of the blog after all).

Maybe God was just trying to remind me of that. To encourage me to be confident in the fact that I am a new creation and I need to let that show all the time.

Whatever the message was, I know that today was all God's doing.

As my friend said, with coincidences like this, there is no way it isn't because of the Spirit working in our lives.