When Dani asked me to co-write on her blog this week, I truly felt honored. But if I’m being completely honest, I had no idea where to start. Dani is getting to experience new and exciting things every day in a new country every month, and I’ve just been here doing the same routine I always do. What could I possibly say? After a few failed attempts, I prayed and asked God to give me something. Anything. I decided to let God work and I would get back to writing after my Bible study. Well, let me tell you, God sent something I didn’t see coming.
Now, I know what you’re thinking… It’s December? Snow seems pretty common this time of year. Not for College Station, Texas. In the last 10 years I’ve lived here, it has snowed once where there was even enough to make a snowball. When I walked outside after Bible study, everywhere I looked was covered by a blanket of white. I drove slowly on my way home to be safe, but also to take it all in. Everything looked so different. So new. So BEAUTIFUL. My same ordinary drive to our country house that Dani and I share, looked like a winding road in the mountains that lead to some snowy cabin. I stopped in the middle of our dirt road because I wanted to take pictures of the trees that line our road. That’s when God showed me what He wanted me to share in this blog.
Right before I walked outside and witnessed the snow, in Bible study we were talking about God’s works. We had each taken turns sharing ways God has worked in our lives or how we have seen Him work through others. The last question we were asked was “Do we constantly look for God’s work?” It wasn’t until I was staring in awe of these same trees I see every day on my driveway, now powdered with snow, that I realized what it meant.
It’s easy to see God’s work when He does something BIG.
It’s easy to see His breath taking work when He covers a town in south Texas with snow for the first time in years.
Easy to see His work in your very best friend when He calls her to leave home for 11 months and go to 11 countries to share His truth.
But am I constantly looking for His works?
It’s good to give praise in the works that are BIG.
Thank you, Jesus for snow!!
But, remember to give God praise in the every day works.
Thank you, Jesus for my everyday routine. You are working in me right where I am to serve others every day by getting to do what I love.
Thank you, Jesus for Dani! Your work in our friendship has given me a best friend every single day for the last 20 years.
From the minute you take a new breath each morning and wake up to start a new day, our Father is doing a work in you. God loves to work. Jesus loves to move. See where He is working in you.
“When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, WHAT IS MAN THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM, and the son of man that you care for him?… Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR. YOU HAVE GIVEN HIM DOMINION OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS: you have put all things under his feet.”
— Psalms 8:3-6
Thanks,
Neely
