RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME

Life is busy. There’s always the next thing demanding our attention. Or our minds are always dwelling on past successes or failures. We rarely take opportunities to pause and reflect on where we are and what we are doing.

Why do you think God has you in the role you’re currently in?

B i g P i c t u r e

God has put us in the exact time and place we’re in so that people might find him through us.

B i b l e P a s s a g e

“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said,‘We are his offspring.’" - Acts 17:24-28 (NIV)

K e y T r u t h s

1. God doesn’t fit into our little temples, nor does he squeeze into our little plans. We fit within his grand schemes for all of history.

2. God has set out our exact times and places so that we might seek him, reach out, and find him (though he’s not far from any of us). This must also include when and where we work.

3. If God has set the places and times unbelievers work so they might find him, it follows that he has also set the times and places Christians work so that, through us, people might find him.

4. It is no accident that we are working with the people we are; it is part of God’s plan to see unbelievers come to know Jesus.

Thoughts? Questions?

A p p l i c a t i o n

• Do you remember praying before you got your current role? Do you remember why you applied and agreed to take the role? Was sharing Jesus part of what you were thinking about?
• As we have seen, people finding Jesus is a part of God’s purpose in everything. How does this change how you view your colleagues?
• When was the last time you considered the eternal destiny of those around you at work? How does it change your prayers?
• Which of your colleagues could God be working in right now?

P r a y e r

Pray for a fresh perspective on your colleagues, that you would see them as God does – as people who need to reach out and find Him through Jesus.