Morning Meditation – God Establishes The Time
Morning Meditation with George Hutchings
Divine Appointment: God Establishes the Time and Place For a Man to Live, Part
Acts 17:28 “For in him we live and move and have our being.” (NIV)
In 1985 we were looking for an adequate home in Ballwin, Missouri and found the floor plan we loved. It was a four-bedroom, two-story house with pillars out front. But, we could not afford the house. It was $30,000 more than we could afford. Our realtor, however, knew a builder who had a lot he couldn’t move. It was next door to a school and the lot was large enough for the floor plan we wanted.
The builder worked with us and we had the floor plan we wanted next door to the school our daughter would attend. We had searched west St. Louis County and this was the only place we could buy and it was perfect…with a twist. The street was called Tumulty.
We didn’t pay attention to the name of the street until months after we moved in. Tumulty, what does that mean? I thought about it, and it comes from the word turmoil, or trouble. We had bought a house on a street named trouble. I immediately wanted to move.
But Tumulty Drive was the only place we could find and afford, and moving in was a good experience. Looking back, behind the scenes was the invisible hand of God, arranging the place of our habitation.
Later, our daughter’s family moved to St. Charles—a 30-minute drive when we baby sat our grandkids. One day our daughter Jennifer was speaking with her neighbor, who said the couple would be moving soon when they retired. They’d be selling their house.
Jennifer said, “Don’t list it. My dad will buy it!” Then she told me about the arrangements she was making.
A couple of years passed with nothing more mentioned about it. Claudia then told Jennifer they were ready to retire and sell their house. Jennifer replied, “Great! My dad will buy it.”
Jennifer called and Becky and I toured the house. Now we live next door to our daughter and four grandkids. Every morning at 8am you will find me having coffee with my daughter and seeing the kids off to the school bus.
I had no choice but to move. “The influence a man has on his own household far outweighs what he does for the masses,” Daniel Webster said.
Was our move a coincidence? Thirty years ago, I drove past the same subdivision and said, “That’s a nice place. I’d like to live there someday.” And here we are. “God has established the time and the place for a man to live.”
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George Hutchings, Co-Founder and President
Juanita School for Girls, Jungle Kenya
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