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Almost forgot...911

人真的善忘, 若不是收到以下的文章,差不多忘了明天是911.

但又如何忘得了呢?

大家記得那天自己在那裡, 在幹什麼嗎?

THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN® LIFE Daily Devotional September 10, 2004

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God of No Accidents
by John Fischer

We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed and broken. 2 Corinthians 4:8 NLT

Tomorrow is a day in infamy that has now joined a handful of other days where you can ask the question, “Where were you when you first heard about…” Depending on your age, you could insert JFK’s or Martin Luther King’s assassination there, or Pearl Harbor, or perhaps the Challenger space shuttle disaster. But most of us can remember exactly where we were and what we were doing three years ago tomorrow, the day we know now simply as 9/11.

According to a message I received recently via E-mail, there are a number of people who are grateful for what they were doing that day that made them late for work. From stopping for donuts, or getting stuck in traffic, or having a car that wouldn’t start, to spending extra time with a son’s first day in kindergarten, or answering that last telephone call instead of going out the door, every one of these people had a split-second decision or an aggravation that kept them from being at work on time at the World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2001.

One man apparently was late to work because he stopped in at a drug store to buy a Band-Aid for his foot, which was smarting over a new pair of shoes. That is why he is alive today.

So now when you are stuck in traffic, miss an elevator, turn back to answer a ringing telephone—all the little things that annoy you—think about how this may be exactly where God wants you to be at this very moment. It may even mean your life.

God is infinitely meticulous. He is aware of every detail of our lives, and is even working out His will in the midst of them. From our perspective, our lives are full of “accidents” and “coincidences.” God has no use for either of these words in His vocabulary.

So the next time your morning seems to be going wrong—you can't find the car keys, or you hit every traffic light red—remember that God has a plan that takes into account all these things. Every little detail, every breath you take, is a part of God’s knowledge about you today. It’s all about knowing and believing that there are bigger things at work in our lives than what we can see. God’s plans continue to go forward in spite of the unthinkable.

Someday we will discover all the events of our lives woven into an intricate tapestry that brings nothing but glory to God.

Who knows what life’s little aggravations (or even its big ones) might mean for you today?
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