I had to wait
Yesterday morning, I woke up and turned the radio on for noise. I always have the radio in the bedroom set for 95.5 (BBN Radio). The program that was on is called "Let My People Think" and is hosed by Ravi Zacharias, who is a tremendously gifted speaker. He was talking about Christians and how we've kind of gotten used to doing things for ourselves and not expecting God to show up at events, like even during the sermon at church.
At church, before the sermon, the pastor asked if anything unusual happened to me in the last day. I shook my head no, but that was about to change.
God always shows up. I wonder though, how many times we're too busy waiting on or working for what we want, that we forget to notice.
I sometimes don't know what to make of the things I see in my life. I mean that. Honestly sometimes I just think they're there to be seen. Other times, I'm convinced they mean something. But as I listened to the sermon, I heard part of what the man on the radio was saying.
God shows up. I expect Him to. More importantly, I expect miracles. I expect Him to lead. I expect those things not out of arrogance but because that is what God says I can expect Him to do. The message was also a good reminder that the things I'm waiting on God to do will happen in His good and perfect time.
My life and walk with Christ seems abnormally, well, active, but it's wonderful and it works for me. How it got this way was that I heard someone say that God talks to us. He used to use the prophets, (notice the USED TO), and as the pastor pointed out, there was a period of about 400 years where God just let things go the way they were going with the Israelites. And then, one day a priest went into the Temple and was visited by an angel, which broke God's silence. (part of the sermon on Sunday!) Well if God was still speaking to us, then I wanted to know what He had to say about this and that. OK, I want to know a lot, but I don't always get the answers I expect. The thing is, though, I read this article about how God speaks to us today, and then that was reinforced by my Experiencing God experience.
I think that's a good word for my walk, I don't just believe in Him, believe in Christ, I experience that relationship.
Part of what I'm doing now is adjusting my life to His will. I finally am learning to dance in the rain; to sing new songs, to enjoy life even when things are difficult. I'm starting to enjoy life again, and I'm trying to wait with joy, and for once in my life, not either try to run ahead of God or to do it myself. I'm trying to work in concert with what He's doing.
And I have some peace today!
That's my story for today, folks.
Love God, love your neighbor!
At church, before the sermon, the pastor asked if anything unusual happened to me in the last day. I shook my head no, but that was about to change.
God always shows up. I wonder though, how many times we're too busy waiting on or working for what we want, that we forget to notice.
I sometimes don't know what to make of the things I see in my life. I mean that. Honestly sometimes I just think they're there to be seen. Other times, I'm convinced they mean something. But as I listened to the sermon, I heard part of what the man on the radio was saying.
God shows up. I expect Him to. More importantly, I expect miracles. I expect Him to lead. I expect those things not out of arrogance but because that is what God says I can expect Him to do. The message was also a good reminder that the things I'm waiting on God to do will happen in His good and perfect time.
My life and walk with Christ seems abnormally, well, active, but it's wonderful and it works for me. How it got this way was that I heard someone say that God talks to us. He used to use the prophets, (notice the USED TO), and as the pastor pointed out, there was a period of about 400 years where God just let things go the way they were going with the Israelites. And then, one day a priest went into the Temple and was visited by an angel, which broke God's silence. (part of the sermon on Sunday!) Well if God was still speaking to us, then I wanted to know what He had to say about this and that. OK, I want to know a lot, but I don't always get the answers I expect. The thing is, though, I read this article about how God speaks to us today, and then that was reinforced by my Experiencing God experience.
I think that's a good word for my walk, I don't just believe in Him, believe in Christ, I experience that relationship.
Part of what I'm doing now is adjusting my life to His will. I finally am learning to dance in the rain; to sing new songs, to enjoy life even when things are difficult. I'm starting to enjoy life again, and I'm trying to wait with joy, and for once in my life, not either try to run ahead of God or to do it myself. I'm trying to work in concert with what He's doing.
And I have some peace today!
That's my story for today, folks.
Love God, love your neighbor!
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