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What is the synchronicity of God? A week ago, the director of my Bible studyasked if anyone would share their testimony of how they came to know Jesus as their personal Savior. Several people shared their story. As I listened, I was thinking, “I should really video these.”
So, I brought my tablet on Sunday planning to ask a few of the people who shared the week before if I could record them. Becky just happened to be the first person that I asked. And this is her story:
Hit by a Freight Train
Is that not an amazing testimony of God having his hand in circumstances? All of these “just happened to” occurrences. If any one were not perfectly in line, she most likely wouldn’t have lived.
This is called:
Synchronicity
syn·chro·nic·i·ty
the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.
A word coined by Jung to say, “We know there is a connection here, but we just don’t know what it is.” 1 Synchronicity. Wikipedia. Accessed 12 September 2013.
It’s God.
More specifically, the overwhelming love of God that can take circumstances outside of his will to work within it.
It is Romans 8:28
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. ~ NASB 2 Romans 8:28 (New American Standard Bible.)
There is No Such Thing as Coincidence
A friend once told me that there is no word for coincidence, meaning random chance, in the original Hebrew language. The equivalent word, mikreh, means “a happening from God.”
But Hebrew – loshon hakodesh – is the holy tongue; the language in which G-d Himself spoke; the language in which He gave us His holy Torah. Therefore, there can be no true equivalent to any Hebrew word in another language.
Literally translated, mikreh means ìkarah míHaShem – it happened from G-d. The word itself testifies that nothing, absolutely nothing, occurs without His guidance, and this holds true from the most major to the most insignificant event. 3 Jungreis, Rebbetzin. Coincidence or Mikreh. Hineni.org. 7 April 2005. Accessed 12 September 2013.
Also on Sunday during the praise time, another person shared that she was driving on the freeway and felt that God was telling her to pull over. She did and a second later there was a huge accident, the cars right behind her were involved and if she hadn’t pulled over, she would have been as well.
Keep me safe, O God,
for I have come to you for refuge.
I said to the Lord, “You are my Master!
Every good thing I have comes from you.”
The godly people in the land
are my true heroes!
I take pleasure in them!
Troubles multiply for those who chase after other gods.
I will not take part in their sacrifices of blood
or even speak the names of their gods.
Lord, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing.
You guard all that is mine.
The land you have given me is a pleasant land.
What a wonderful inheritance!
I will bless the Lord who guides me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
I know the Lord is always with me.
I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.
No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice.[b]
My body rests in safety.
For you will not leave my soul among the dead
or allow your holy one[d] to rot in the grave.
You will show me the way of life,
granting me the joy of your presence
and the pleasures of living with you forever. ~ Psalm 16:1-11 NLT
I was looking up Romans 8:28 and was lead to this page, and I opened it because of my interest in synchronicity. Great post! I was also very touched by Becky’s story. Thank you for taking the time to share it, as well as your commentary. God bless you!
Stephanie,
Thank you for your comment. I’m glad it blessed you. I love her story too!
I was brought here by synchronous events that I was looking for answers to on the Sabbath. When I was 16 I too was a stickler for seatbelts because of an accident 2 months previous. My boyfriend ran a stop sign, we were t-boned at the intersection and I was thrown from the vehicle which actually saved my life, too. The vehicle ignited upon impact. I had taken my seatbelt off just moments before the accident. I was the only survivor. I was found in between the 2 vehicles in a ditch with massive internal and external injuries. They only found me because I had groaned and someone had heard it through the roaring fire. The man that hit us had become married on Friday, his son born on Saturday and he died at about 3am Monday morning. The location of the accident was peculiar and right near a house on the corner and this was in a rural area. The fact that we and the other vehicle at the intersection at the same time was extremely hard to happen. The other driver had only ran home to grab diapers he had forgotten earlier in the day. The house on the corner was his uncle’s house. Because my boyfriend (which was in all honesty the man I intended to marry) and I were both thrown from the vehicle, I became the scapegoat for many years to come. I was accused of driving. Being from a small town the conspiracy theorists and family of my boyfriend and family of the other driver of the other vehicle drank it up and it was pretty quick that I was shunned by 3 communities in the rural area I’d called home for my entire life.
It’s amazing that this caused me to move and 10 months after my 18th birthday (which is the age difference between my husband and I), I met the man that I call mine to this day. It’s been Hell on Earth with my husband of the last 17 years and his background is even more terrifying than the difficulties of my own past. Maybe one day I can say more.
However, losing my first love in the way that I did made me say I’d never throw away what most people take for granted. When I say it’s been rough the last 6 years of our marriage is an understatement. We’ve been in and out of the homeless shelter 3 times, had people try to turn us against each other, had people take advantage of us in to a detrimental effect on our finances just to have a place to live, we both suffered from alcoholism (him as the drinker and I his wife), 3 vehicles wrecked and the list goes on and on.
I know that whatever it is I can handle it because of the pain I experienced after the accident. There’s no lack of love in our marriage and I know my husband is a gift from God. However, he was abandoned by his parents and needed to learn I had unconditional love for him and would see it through.
Unfortunately, we are separated by miles and I’m in Michigan which is back home for me. We lived in Colorado for 18 years and tried to build our life there and I now realize it’s time to be home again. My husband no longer drinks, is in the process of tying up legal issues as a direct result of his drinking and we will patiently wait for him. We have 4 kiddos together; 2 boys and 2 girls.
My husband says home is wherever we are.
In the meantime, I am filing for disability. When I was thrown from the vehicle at 16 I spent a week in a coma and 2 weeks in the hospital. My body is wracked with pain because of the old injuries but I’m lucky I can still walk. I have even found a reason for the pain that gets me 24/7. Many actually.
I haven’t explained all of the spot on similarities in her story to mine but God has led me here.
Maybe this will help someone else.
My mom told me that most people wouldn’t have survived the ordeal on an emotional and mental level, nevermind the physical injuries I sustained. It’s been a long road but immediately after the accident, suicide wasn’t a bad option to me. After seeing pictures of my mom in the hospital and seeing the sadness on her face in those pictures, I decided I didn’t want to put her through all of that again yet on a worse level. After the initial coma, 4 or 5 days in I began to improve and my chances of living increased and she knew she was the lucky one as the other 2 families would never take their sons home from the hospital.
The legal issues are from him blacking out and getting behind the wheel. Had he not hit a fence and then the fence getting wrapped in the wheel well, he’d have gone over a cliff into a river that was also a 40 foot drop. It straightened him up and in the hospital, the sheriff’s car and the ambulance he was told he had an angel looking out for him.
The Almighty God, father of our Lord Christ Jesus keep you in His infinite Grace
Thank you!
Wow! This blessed and informed my soul. My unbelieving sister in law kept throwing this term around during our recent visit. What a simple but powerful statement “ A word coined by Jung to say, “We know there is a connection here, but we just don’t know what it is.” 1
It’s God.
Gif bless you.
I am so happy to hear that. I’m praying for your sister.