Who is in charge of timing, or time, God or the Devil?

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I ask this question because of certain coincidental occurrences in my life, that have becoming very annoying for me over time. For example, I work from home, and invariably this type of thing happens to me. I will have no clients all day, then just as I am about to close up for the day, the home phone rings, my mobile phone also rings, I get an email, and the doorbell also chimes, with someone there, all at the same time. Who is controlling the timing of these events then, God, or the Devil. Sometimes, it seems like a certain type of telepathy is going on which might be responsible here though. Last night, I was in the middle of texting someone about something, that I had been waiting all day for them to contact me about. Just then, at that exact time, I received a text from this very person about the matter in hand. I did not then have to send my text, after all. Coincidence, telepathy, or is there some other force controlling the outplaying of these events?? Here is another example: John works for a real estate company, collecting rents from clients for them. Each day, at 7.30 pm, he has to send an email to his head office, listing all of the rents, collected by him, for that day. John also works partly from home in his doing of his job. Now, last night, John has just finished preparing his detailed listing of the client's names, and the amounts received, together with the properties that they were paying the rent for, and the months covered by the payment made that day. Satisfied, after a tiring and very busy, frustratingly painful, day, John is pleased to finally finish his listing on time tonight. It was a long list that night. He had checked it over several times, to make sure, that it was all error free. John now places his finger on the email button on his computer. Just then, the very second, that he has just emailed it off, and his finger completes the push on the enter key, his doorbell chimes. It is another client, with a large back payment for outstanding rent. He has received a letter, apparently that he will be evicted tomorrow, if the rent is not marked as received today. Every client of John's knows John's schedule. They know that he sends his email at 7.30 each night. He has explained, and reminded them all of this constantly, both in word, and memo. This man didn't even telephone John to give John the courtesy to let John know that he would be coming around that night. Now, perhaps, if John had known that he was coming around, and expected to come that night, he might have been able to hold off sending his email for a window of around ten minutes, or so, at most. If it isn't sent on time, the person at the other end, always just assumes, that there was nothing coming from John for that particular day. A few times, in the past, John has redone his list when this happened before, and he had then sent off a revised list to his head office. Invariably, when he did this though, with more than one email floating around, (i.e. two copies of his list for that day) even if he had carefully explained what had happened, head office staff would mess things up, and always they would blame John for it. John then had decided never to change his listing again, once certified as correct for the day, and sent. Now, this client Albert, could have come two minutes earlier, and his money would have been included, for that day. Who then is responsible for this intricately connected timed event for it to play itself out exactly in this way. Surely, this time, it was the Devil. What do you think? Photo Credit: The photo used here was freely sourced from the free media site: pixabay.com. Who is it that deals us our cards in our life? God, or the Devil?