A friend told me about a TV show called God Friended Me. It’s about a young man who is an atheist and gets contacted through social media by a profile that supposedly belongs to God. This profile connects him to people who need his help. Turns out, the young man needs their help too. The show is made to be entertaining rather than biblically accurate. However, one thing that the show does get right is showing there is a grand design. Everything happens for a reason. God puts us in places to help those around us in big and small ways, if we just pay attention.

Maybe we are meant to be on the same bus with someone who is being discriminated against, and who needs us to stick up for them. Or maybe we are meant to be at the grocery store when someone needs a hand with paying for their groceries. Or maybe we are on social media and see a post from someone who really needs prayer and encouragement. These are not coincidences; these are part of God’s grand design and opportunities for us to make His glory known.

The amazing thing is that God uses us, like Paul said,  “to proclaim to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all men see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God”(Ephesians 3:8-9). Our job is to make this mystery of Christ’s love and work known. That is the grand design. Always remember your part in it, and you will reach your world for Christ.

This is Luis Palau.