Coincidence?

I've been thinking about coincidence. Do I believe in it? Do I not? I decided to do some research. Not surprisingly, I learned a few things.

One...Luke 10:31 is the only place that specific Greek word is used (Sugkuria). Interesting, all the more, because it's a parable spoken by Jesus.

Then I did a search in several translations for "by chance" as well as "coincidence." "By chance" is found in 1 Sam. 6:9, 2 Sam. 1:6 and of course Luke 10:31. "Coincidence" is not found in the KJV or the ASV. It is found in Young's Literal in Luke 10:31 and the ESV and NLT both have it in 1 Sam. 6:9.

For an evidence person, that's not a lot of evidence to support a "I believe in coincidences" statement.

Then, because my brain might be too small to comprehend everything is by God's orchestration and design, I clicked on the resources tab and found this:

Chance
( Luke 10:31 ). "It was not by chance that the priest came down by that road at that time, but by a specific arrangement and in exact fulfilment of a plan; not the plan of the priest, nor the plan of the wounded traveller, but the plan of God. By coincidence (Gr. sungkuria) the priest came down, that is, by the conjunction of two things, in fact, which were previously constituted a pair in the providence of God. In the result they fell together according to the omniscient Designer's plan. This is the true theory of the divine government." Compare the meeting of Philip with the Ethiopian ( Acts 8:26 Acts 8:27 ). There is no "chance" in God's empire. "Chance" is only another word for our want of knowledge as to the way in which one event falls in with another ( 1 Samuel 6:9 ; Eccl 9:11 ). (reference)

That last statement...the "Chance is only another word for our want of knowledge as to the way in which one event falls in with another" one got me. That so sounds like the human mind/nature/tendency.

We try, unsuccessfully usually, to make something "fit" according to how we understand things instead of focusing on the fact that God's mind (wow, God has a mind - never really thought about that before) is unequivocally much better than ours.

Why do we do that? We justify and rationalize away God's works and wonders in exchange for what we can understand. Isn't that just the opposite of what we really want? We say we want a "wonderful" faith and to see God "work" and yet when He does, we belittle and minimize it and make it human.

Shame on us, huh?