What effect will a moment have on others? Have you ever wondered about that, how a seemingly random event in your life may spill out into the world of another? We may think that our words and actions affect only those immediately around us, but we often find that a small deed on our part ends up having a great effect on people without ever knowing it.
This might seem random and uncoordinated, but in the providence of God, unplanned moments can end up being a part of his great tapestry for our lives. He weaves together the events of our lives in such a way that we can see only by looking behind us, seeing the improbable and unlikely turn out to be reality.
In the wake of the sad passing of Ravi Zacharias, John Stonestreet and Shane Morris reached out to Abud Murray, one of Zacharias’ co-laborers in ministry. From him we hear just this sort of story, how God’s orchestration of life worked to bring him to a place he’d never have expected before.
Below is an edited excerpt of the conversation.
“I first heard Ravi by providence. I was driving through a rural area on a Sunday morning on a long road trip. This is back before iPods and iPhones, where you couldn’t just pick whatever you wanted to listen to, absent a cassette tape. So I was stuck with the scan button to be my entertainment.