In the Right Place

From: Lee

This past weekend, I drove to Kansas City with a friend to watch my favorite baseball team, the Kansas City Royals, play a couple of games.

During one of the games, Slugerrr—the team mascot, who happens to be a lion—strategically made his way toward a woman (who was wearing a Royals t-shirt) with a sign that held a marriage proposal. When she saw it, the man who involved Slugerrr in his proposal plans got down on one knee. I couldn’t hear the conversation, but judging from the woman’s reaction, I’m pretty sure she said yes. She took the ring, hugged him, and the celebration began. They even posed for photos with Slugerrr.

I started thinking about how cool it would be to find a single woman who shared my love for the Royals. Of course, she’d need to be a Christian—more on that in a minute. If I found said woman in such a setting, I wouldn’t have to feel guilty if I watched the Royals during the summer. We’d be watching them together!

The Royals promoted that particular day as “Faith & Family Day.” After the game, a couple of players spoke to the crowd about their faith in Christ. And then Mercy Me played a concert while wearing Royals jerseys, which I thought was pretty cool. About 8,000 people or so stuck around to listen to the players and the band.

That’s when my mind really went crazy . . . how cool would it be to find a single Christian woman who was a Royals fan? Could I have possibly put myself in a better environment to find such a woman?

I don’t think so.

It didn’t happen that day, but it reminded me of a couple of biblical examples of singles who, with more forethought than I gave it, put themselves in a position to find a spouse.

When Abraham’s servant traveled to Nahor in Mesopotamia to find a wife for Isaac, he prayerfully led his camels to “kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water” (Gen. 24:11). He met Rebekah there and she eventually became Isaac’s wife. Abraham’s servant purposely and prayerfully went to the place in the city where he was sure to find women from which to choose a prospective spouse for Isaac. He was a wise man.

Ruth made sure she was all cleaned up and prettied up, at her mother-in-law’s suggestion, and she went to the threshingfloor were Boaz was sleeping after winnowing barley all day. She uncovered his feet and laid down there. He woke up, and the rest, as they say, is history. She took a huge risk—maybe a bigger risk than she should have, but apparently she knew enough about Boaz’s reputation to do so. But the point is, she put herself in a position to find the person whom she believed she was supposed to be with—she didn’t wait around in her mother-in-law’s house for it to happen.

There’s an old adage that says you have to be in the right place at the right time. But there’s nothing wrong with making sure you are in the right place at the right time. In fact, God seems to bless such action in his perfect timing and will when it comes to finding a spouse.