God's Hand

I was asked last week to play for chapel. It’s been fun to be involved in leading the singing during our chapel sessions; I haven’t done so in a long time. The lady who was going to be speaking had chosen two songs she wanted to have played. She thought one of the songs, Cry to Jesus (Chris Rice), wasn’t well-known. When I said I knew it, another lady said something to the effect of ‘praise God,’ thinking it was his special providence that I knew this song.
Now the question is, had the song been ‘Amazing Grace’ or ‘Jesus Loves Me’ would she have said ‘praise God’ as though it were his special care that had arranged for me to know the song? No, probably not. Everyone knows those songs, right?
The fact of the matter is, almost everyone I spoke to later knew the song. Most of the guitar-players she could have asked to play would have known the song. Her perception led her to believe it was rare for people to know the song, therefore my knowing it was God’s doing. The truth is, she would have had the same answer with probably 80% of the people she’d have asked.
Another thing. We usually don’t ask God for healing when we’ve got a headache. We take a pill to solve the problem. But what if we have cancer? We don’t usually pray for God’s protection when we go for a drive, but we may do so if the weather’s nasty. We don’t often pray to God for guidance when we choose between milk and orange juice for breakfast, but if it’s a career switch, or a relationship decision, we do our best to discern God’s will.
All of these circumstances are on a continuum. At what point do we ‘decide’ to involve God? At what point do we attribute the events which have occurred (e.g. arriving safely at our destination after driving through a blizzard, being cured of cancer after chemotherapy) to his doing?
I don’t think we understand God very well.