Coincidence or God?

And take the ark of the LORD and place it on the cart and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt offering. Then send it off and let it go its way  and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.  1 Samuel 6:8-9

Coincidence; the occurrence of two or more events at the same time, has been the flip side of the miraculous that we keep watch for daily. Is it God's hand at work in this life or is it coincidence? We may ask that question of a great many interesting events we see in the news and all around us. The Philistines in our story today did a little test and found there was no coincidence involved. Was that test result more or less frightening to them? 

Glory and honor to God our Father!

Bucky