God's Mercy

We cannot determine the time and place of our birth. It is almost by chance that one is born in Africa, with a black skin, and another is born in the USA, with a white skin. One person speaks English, another one speaks Swahili. No one by cunning or expertise can change the colour of his skin or the time of his birth. The wisdom writer in Ecclesiastes says that he saw everything under the sun and discovered that the race was not always won by the swift, or the battle given to the strong, or bread to the wise, or riches to men of understanding Ecc 9:11. Why is one person raised up above another in this world? How can two people write a good book, and one have success, and the other not get results? Time and chance happens to all. Some live a long life, others never reach adulthood. We can't control our circumstances.
To find out the meaning of life we have to look beyond and above the world around us. There is the Person of Almighty God behind all things, and He can turn adverse events for good. Only God can address the evil in the world, and bring good out of heartbreak. His thoughts and ways are higher than ours. There is His providential care, in that He causes the sun to shine, and the rain to fall, on the just and unjust alike. But then there is the special care that He has for His children who own His name. He specifically answers their prayers. There are things that only happen because someone prayed. Special answers that come because petitions were asked in the name of Jesus. He uses people to bring down blessings from heaven to the earth. That accident of birth, whether time or place, is used to place you as a person right where He needs you to be! Your destiny is fulfilled when you yeild to His perfect will and do not fight against the circumstances you find yourself in. Things can change because you are there; lives will never be the same because you cared; your mission field is all around you and in it you prove your love for Jesus. It is not what you say; but who you are and what you do, that proves your love for God.
"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.
For the scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that i might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." Rom 9:15-17