Standing on the corner waiting for destiny

I like strangers. This is no secret. Sometimes it's as if a particular stranger has a bull's-eye on their chest or a big neon arrow sign over their head flashing as if to say, "This person needs to encounter God today!"

One such man was standing on the sidewalk in front of my friend's house.

I was walking down the street to go to Bible study at my friend's house when I happened upon a man standing squarely in the middle of the sidewalk looking at the sky and appearing quite perplexed. He had on a backpack like he was about to embark on a trip. Or a hike. But he was in the city.

So I said to him, "Are you waiting for somebody?"

"No" he replied.

And then I said, "You look like you're waiting for your destiny!"

He actually was waiting for his brother. But we engaged in conversation and he volunteered that something very horrible had happened just recently. Before we got into the details his brother emerged from a nearby house and I invited them to Bible study. I said that it very well could be that God would show them their destiny! The brother asked if God would do that for an atheist. I said "Sure!"

They had somewhere to go, so the conversation was left there, but I can't help but wonder what was the horrible event that had happened. In any case I hope it was an encouragement to the man to hear that God has a destiny awaiting him!

I don't know where life finds you today, but I pray that wherever that is, you would know what you were put on this earth for.

1 Corinthians 2: 9

“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him”