I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be in the presence of God for an entire day. To be constantly aware of Him. How He’s moving, where He’s speaking, How He is loving me and challenging me. For an entire day.
But I’ve never felt that I succeeded. I can spend the first hour of my day full enveloped in His presence. Feeling His love strongly; feeling joy and peace, excitement and passion deep in my soul. It’s the best way to begin a day… but when my quiet time is drawing to a close, I feel a sense of dread. “I don’t want to move. I don’t want to pull myself out of this… I just want to sit here with You all day.”
But we can’t do that. We have ministry, we have jobs, we have school, we have places to be and people to see.
And when I look back at the end of the day… I feel like I lost it. I’m so easily distracted.
I was always looking for His presence in my day to be something BIG. Something everyone would notice. But this morning, I remembered. His presence is always with us, around us… IN us. And I can always look back and see glimpses of it. It’s not always in an amazing quiet time or a miraculous healing.
It’s the small things.
Yeah, our God is a POWERFUL God… and He does amazing things we couldn’t even begin to fathom.
But
He’s there when I brush my teeth in the morning, reminding me that He created me.
He’s in our conversations, reminding us of His ways, His love, His community.
He’s in our rest, as we lay on a couch watching a movie, enjoying what we enjoy.
He’s in our time cooking or cleaning, reminding us of His provision.
He’s in music, singing and dancing over us.
He’s in our laughter, rejoicing with us.
He’s in tears and sorrow, cradling us in His arms and crying with us.
He is in absolutely everything.
I needed this reminder today and maybe you do too.
Just look for Him.
In September… just a month after I return to the States… I will be moving to Gainesville, GA to attend something called The Center for Global Action. I will be living in community with other alumni racers, working as an apprentice in a department of Adventures in Missions, and attending discipleship classes in the evenings. Check out the video below or the website by clicking on the link above.
And I need your help.
Please Support me as I attend The Center for Global Action
By September 1st I need to have raised $600.
For each month following I will need $300 to continue.
That's a total of $3,600 for the year.
Please support me as I continue my Kingdom Journey. Just click… here.
