DIVINE APPOINTMENTS, ETERNAL DESTINATIONS

Have you stopped lately to consider the destinations of the people who move through your life: you know, all those folks you meet and interact with, if even for only a few moments? In any given week, there may be a hundred or more lives that you touch in one way or another. For a few of us, there are more. For some of us, there are less.

But for all of us, there are some.

These people all have a destination. As your path crosses theirs, they’re going somewhere; and because of that fact, they may seem to be in a hurry. Then again, maybe the one who is hurrying is you, with the result your encounters seem fleeting, trivial or perhaps even annoying.

But there is something vital about each momentary meeting. If you believe that God is in any sense sovereign in the affairs of His creation (and I do), your so-called “chance meeting” may in fact be a divine appointment God has been arranging for years. The blessing of a life or the salvation of a human soul may be what God would like to place on your agenda, and if you fail to understand that possibility, you may miss an appointment God made for you.

God may have arranged for the path of one who has forgotten Him to cross your path so that you can do some reminding. He may have brought a hurting heart before you so you could apply the healing touch of His blessing. That cranky teller, that absent minded clerk, or that waitress who forgets your order may be just the person God has brought to you (or sent you to), with a redemptive purpose for the meeting.

That’s why you and I must always be prayed up and ready to extend God’s blessing, share His love, and reveal His truth. You see, there is much more ministry in your day than what you may think. If you’re too busy to pray for someone, you’re too busy. Your schedule is simply too full if you don’t have a moment to ask a hurting or angry soul, “How may I pray for you?”

These people all have a destination: every one of them is headed either for heaven or hell. The very fact that you have contact with them is evidence that our sovereign God has placed you strategically in their lives as a kind of missionary.

If you know Jesus and they don’t, who else is going to tell them? You don’t think for a moment that it’s up to your pastor to tell them, do you? It’s very likely they don’t even know your pastor.

If God brought that person to you, it’s obvious He expects you to do what you can to bring that person to Him. It’s a divine appointment, and someone’s eternal destiny may be involved.

What, with the help of God, are you doing about it?