God's Sovereignty and Coincidence: Does coincidence exist?

Today, the term "coincidence" is used to explain away parallel happenings from which we, as fallible humans, have made a conclusion (usually a very fatalistic and obviously fallible one, see the following).

Take into consideration...:

• The guy who has been given two job offers and has felt like he's been "followed around by" one of the two companies; seeing them on billboards and in magazines everywhere he goes.
• The woman who finds herself in possession, without attempt, of a travel brochure to the place she's always wanted to go (look again, now its diamonds; p.s. I'm on a horse)
• The two singles who constantly find themselves saying the same thing at the same time, who run into each other all the time without trying, who find out that they have a lot in common, etc. etc. etc. (we all know the song and dance here, in the unlikely event that you haven't done it, you've seen it)

In the world, it is easy to file these co-transpiring events under "irrelevant to one another", but as a Christian, who believes in the God who is Sovereign over all, what do we make of this? Spurgeon posits that every speck of dust in the air maintains its location and movement by the appointment of God. If this is true, then it would be logical to assume that every action, emotion, event, thought... literally everything, works together in unison to fulfill God's purposes. One unified movement toward completing His will. With that vein of thought it would be just as logical to assume that there really is no such thing as separate events, we classify them all as individual events because that is what we perceive. The "present". Through our perspective we break things down into smaller groups of events, it allows us to wrap our mind around things easier; after all if I say, "explain to me World War II" then we will never understand the full depth and breadth of the event in question, because our grasp and our minds are limited and finite. God, however, sees things that were, are and will be as one event, because He can grasp things at an unlimited level yes, but also because He authored it in the first place. The conclusion here is to say that there is no such thing as a coincidence; every 'event' that occurs IS interconnected, and MUST be integrally related to every future 'event'. The history of the world is really just a series of interconnected 'events'... from the movement of the largest armies known to the planet to the smallest movement of electrons from valence shell to valence shell the uncountable times it has happened; because of their nature as interconnected, it therefore makes the history of the world a single (currently ongoing from our perspective) event.

Taking into account the previous, it is my hypothesis that this is why we humans are so keen to make connections from one 'event' to another (so called, 'coincidences'). We are hard-wired, by nature, to understand that God is, and further to understand that God is sovereign over every event we perceive.

There is another side to this, however. What do we make of it when the two single friends become lovers, only to find a fatal flaw in their attraction? Or when the woman finds it impossible to buy a ticket to her dream vacation despite the many signs that seem to be indicating she should go? or when the man finds out his chosen company has gone bankrupt? Simply stated, we are human. As humans, we are (frequently) wrong. In seeing these events go seemly awry we are not finding out that the previous 'signs' were unrelated. Instead, we are finding out that man cannot play God (shocker). Man does not have the foresight to predict the way that these events will work together, and what result they will produce therein. Man can hardly predict the purpose of two armies meeting in battle, much less two dust motes dancing in the beams of sun in Spurgeon's analysis. The thing we understand best is the present (only marginally better than we understand the others), which is another thing that we are undeniably hard-wired for.

As with most things, there seems to be a dichotomy here. It is my opinion that the greatest wisdom and understanding regarding this comes from marrying the two schools of thought, that only then comes a full understanding of the picture. Everything has a definite purpose, from large to small things, and is being worked together in unison for God's will to come to fruition; however, we as humans do not understand  His will (again, shocker). This phenomenon has even been observed in the field of mathematics, known as Chaos theory.It is my opinion that it is just as important to not place your desires on God's workings as it is to not remove the acknowledgement that they are still God's unified workings. That doesn't mean that God's will isn't for the man to get that job, or for the woman to go on that vacation, or for the two lovers to... excuse me while I say this... "live happily ever after". *English Major armadillo cringes at use of cliche* 

It has happened before that man's intuition proved to be true regarding many of these events, and it will continue to happen; it is just important to not become too attached to your intuitive gatherings either way, because by that vein nothing is coincidence and yet, paradoxically, everything is a 'coincidence'.