Finding God in All Things

     The turn of the year has created a turn in my heart and mind. I have to say I am in love with it. God has placed a spark in me recently to passionately seek him in all things; to notice him and be reminded of his spirit and truth all around me. He has also made my heart, minds, eyes, ears, etc tuned to catch these things.

Childlike Faith/Following Christ

     A friend talked this morning about her very young child and they walk without any idea where they are going. Basically, as a mother attempting to safeguard and keep up, this was a concern as they are never looking for any dangers. Immediately all I could think about is what a cool visual that was for how we should follow Christ!  If, when Christ says go, we would take off walking and not worry about where our foot was going to land. To have such an innocent and lack of awareness of possible worries that we could remain focused on the action alone! We could stay focused on the go and not the terrain, directions, or the destination! Wow! Love it!

Defining Yourself (and others) Through the Word of God/Do Not Judge

     I was speaking with a wonderful woman who shared a simple story about a recent day she had. She described that she was running an errand and had to pick up a bottle of something from the store. She got to the aisle and studied carefully between two products and picked up the one she wanted, paid for it, and left. Only to later discover that somehow she had picked up a bottle of the other brand by mistake and bought the wrong one. While eating lunch with my grandparents, my grandparent started eating their pie and was quite surprised that they had a piece of peach pie. They looked at the label on the package and exclaimed “I thought sure I grabbed the apple pie.” All I could think of was how we so often take quick and rushed looks at circumstances and characteristics in ourselves and/or others and we place a definition on them/ourselves, we buy into it, purchase the lie. All the while we have failed to read the true description.  Our true description comes from the word of God. We are not defined forever by the action we did in the heat of a moment nor are we changed by the “size up” we got by someone else. When my grandparent said they had apple pie the pie didn’t turn into apple. It was peach. Your definition was laid out in the word of God long before anyone or even you have tried to speak any other definition. Likewise, the person you tend to have choice words to describe was described by God before you had the ability to even think. Oh how amazing would it by if we stopped purchasing the wrong things! We have already been paid for anyway.

Side note: I am convinced that this is also his way of giving me a little extra, sustaining me, and giving me a small glimpse of what it will be like to have my dreams and desires, which you may know, if you have been following along on my journey and other posts. He is such a generous God! I fall so much more in love with him every day!