It's never "by chance"!

The Shunammite woman went to the king to appeal for her house

and land to be restored to her after the famine ended in Israel.

At that very moment,

(1) the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of Elisha,

(2) and the king desired to know about the miracles performed by Elisha.

(3) So Gehazi recounted to the king how Elisha had revived the dead child of the Shunammite woman.

(4) Just then, the mother of the child, the Shunammite woman,

came in to plead with the king for her house and land to be restored.

(5) Gehazi exclaimed, 'My lord the king, this is the woman,

and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life!'

(6) The king then questioned the woman, confirmed the truth of the matter,

and summoned an official to restore all her possessions.

He also instructed that the produce of her land

during her absence of seven years be calculated and returned to her"

(2 Kings 8:1-6).

When I meditate on this passage,

I consider that from the perspective of the Shunammite woman,

it might have seemed that all these events happened by chance.

How could it be that just as she went to appeal to the king,

the king happened to be curious about the miracles performed by the prophet Elisha?

And out of all the miracles that Elisha had performed, why did Gehazi, Elisha’s servant,

recount the specific miracle of Elisha reviving the Shunammite woman's dead son to the king?

Isn’t it remarkable? Could all of this have happened merely by coincidence?

Similarly, the foreign woman Ruth was "coincidentally" gleaning in the field of Boaz,

who was a relative of her father-in-law Elimelech, and "just then" Boaz arrived from Bethlehem

and took notice of her among the workers (Ruth 2:3-5).

All these events may appear to have happened "by chance" from a human perspective,

but I believe this is the sovereign God intricately working

and guiding to fulfill His sovereign and good will.

Such amazing, sovereign, and detailed work and guidance from God

are still happening in our lives today!