One time when Moody, an evangelist, was invited to speak at a Christian conference in London, before the meeting he and other pastors had dinner in a local restaurant. One of the pastors was much concerned with why Moody was so zealous to share the word of God. “Mr. Moody, how do you receive a strong passion to spread the gospel?” Before answering the pastor’s question, Moody asked him to walk to the window. As the pastors walked back to his seat from the window, Moody asked him what he saw. “I saw many people walking up and down the street,” replied the pastor. But when Moody went to the window and returned to his seat, tears flowing down his cheeks he said, “Many Londoners are walking into death with knowing Jesus.”

As we leave our house in the morning, drive the car or take the bus to our work place, have meals at some food stands and return home at night, we encounter many strangers in many places. Some of them we may have a short talk with and then perhaps we build some kind of relationship with them and become acquaintances or even good friend. But we might not see them again. Is it coincidence that we talk to a stranger in the street or on the bus? Does God know the stranger we’ve talk to? Does God care about that stranger? The answer is definitely positive.

Paul wrote to his Christian brothers and sisters in Rome that he was delayed to visit them. He was eager to return to Rome and have fellowship with his dear Christians, but he’d been occupied with preaching the gospel in other places. His ambition was to bring the good news to where Jesus was not yet known and worshiped (Romans 15:20). Do we have a strong desire to spread out the gospel like Moody and Paul who everyone they meet and everywhere I go?

There is no coincidence in the Kingdom of God, only God’s providence. There is no stranger in God’s eyes, only his beloved child.