Coincidence or perfect timing? When things line up in a way we cannot explain, we call it a coincidence. But what if it is not a coincidence, but was planned and executed in perfect timing? I was in prayer the other day and I said to the Lord, “You are Omni!” Hagar gave God a name when she called Him El Roi, the God who sees me in Genesis 16, so when those words came out of my mouth, I was giving God a new name to me, but it was a not a new name to God. “You are Omni-present; You are Omni-potent; You are omni-scient.” I was declaring God is all present, all powerful and all knowing, He is Omni!!!! The reality that God is Omni, helps us to see patterns not as coincidences but as planned and prepared by an Omniscient God.
Last night we had an event that was not as publicized as the Great American Eclipse, but created such an awe and wonder in people, that many declared, Psalm, 19, “The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies the work of His hands.” The Northern Lights were seen throughout much of America last night. Many saw pinks, greens, blues of the likes they had not seen before. some pictures captured what looked Iike angelic beings. It was a stunning display of God’s glory in the skies, the first heaven, the firmament. I love it when God shows off.
What some might consider a coincidence, I consider perfect timing. Last night was the New Moon, the beginning of a New Month on the Hebrew Calendar, the month of Iyar or Ziv. This new month is a month of miracles, healing, and blossoming. It is the second month of the biblical calendar year for the Hebrews and it was the very day God decided to reveal the Northern Lights to America and others nations of the world. Coincidence or perfect timing? I say perfect timing, for it happened at the beginning of a new moon, a new month and in it the heavens declared the beauty, the majesty and the glory of God. What a great start to a new month, it excites me to think what this month will hold for us with this kind of start. “There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—He has made everything appropriate in its time.” (Ecclesiastes 3)