2 Kings 5:1-3
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman's wife. She said to her mistress, “Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”
Truth: God uses any person He puts in the right place at the right time.
There are no coincidence in God's plan for mankind. God has a perfect plan and He works that plan using a variety of people. In our society you often hear about how "lucky" people are to have something happen or to meet someone. In God's world there is no such thing as luck. Every thing is by design and by His plan. In the above story a young Jewish girl was taken from her land in a raid by the Syrians. I must have been traumatic for her to be a prisoner of war in a foreign land and away from her parents. Imagine the bitterness that could have entered her life. She could have shut down and become senseless and no-responsive to life. Yet, in the midst of this conflict, God uses her memory and the connection she makes between her captor's leprosey and her memory of the great prophet, Elisha. God uses this little girl to connect the prophet to the commander of the army that took her from her home. God uses people in all kinds of places. When Paul was taken captive by the Roman guards after being attacked by the religious leaders in his day, it was his nephew who God used to uncover a plot.
Acts 23:16
Now the son of Paul's sister heard of their ambush, so he went and entered the barracks and told Paul.
God places people, all kinds of people, in the right places at the right time to accomplish His tasks. There is no meaningless meeting between two people in God's plan. God has a purpose for each interaction. Joseph was in prison for a false crime after being sold into slavery by his wicked brothers. The baker and the cupbearer of the king are tossed into prison and "just happen" to have a dream that Joseph interprets for them. The cupbearer "just happens" to remember the interpretation at the right time for Joseph to be requested by the king and set free. There are no coincidences with God's plan. God uses any person to accomplish His plans. No age, no gender, no ethnicity restrain God from using His creatures to accomplish His plan.
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