A divinely missed appointment?

So there I was, walking around a sunny high street this Saturday past, enjoying the sun and local market.

Then out of the corner of the eye I see them- two cheerful and friendly Mormon missionaries, eagerly wanting to tell people their message.

When one of them asks me my beliefs, I tell him I'm Reformed, and he instantly looks discouraged . He then asks if I know about their beliefs and I say I do, he then makes his excuses and wishes me a good day.

But as I am walking in a park an idea occurs to me- I have some Ray Comfort Gospel tracts in my wallet- I will ask them for some leaflets and in exchange I will give them a Gospel tract.

I go back to the high street, go up and down and lo and behold the Mormons are not there anymore.

In my flesh I was ofcourse tempted to feel this was a 'missed appointment' but we know God's hand is sovereign, even in this.

So what was his purpose in this? Many things are possibilities- maybe I was not the right Christian to give them the Gospel and this was just a start to sow seeds, maybe God is using this incident to increase my zeal for evangelism, maybe it was for this article for me to write about, etc.

And now I know what to do when I see a JW stand or an Islamic Dawah stand, etc.

Would love to know your thoughts!

DragonFox91 said:

Sometimes we are so eager to look to benefit, we do not see how we benefited. Rejoice you know the True Gospel. Surely the Lord is guarding you.

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Thankyou so much, I think the purpose of this encounter was to sow a seed to increase my passion for evangelism!