My ears have been tickled at this phrase over the past few months regarding its meaning and the effect it has on its user. Every now and then, in a state of perceived contentment, as somebody shares a big win story-one in which the outcome was obviously favorable—the story will be bow tied with a: “it’s just a God thing”. What is a God thing? I wonder who first coined the phrase and how it became airborne. Admittedly overanalyzing the phrase, my follow-up impressions are: 1) are their certain God things which have always been established? 2) What are not God things? 3) Could a God thing for me be a bad thing from somebody else’s perspective? 4) Why “thing”. 5) When it’s not God’s, whose is it? (And so on and so forth…) Without trying to be critical, but merely specific, my thoughts go to Colossians 1:17:
17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
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If 1) He is before all things, and 2) all things in Him hold together, then very plainly, all things are God things. All individual “things” become apart of a much bigger story which in the end, is the ultimate THING. So…Suggestion: Be cautious in identifying any singular event the thing you declare as one of those “God’s things”. For potential lies to only see Him in the positive. Rather, let’s be unified in a God who is wholly BEFORE, holding life together, intent on revealing all little something as mile markers to the thing: the journey story of salvation.
Amen?
-Deep thoughts by a shallow guy-
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