God is Here

God is at work every single day.

I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday about God working around us. We talked about how Americans are obsessed with the supernatural, everything from vampires, to zombies, to witches and wizards, yet we so easily and casually discount God.

She went on to say that a man in her Sunday school class commented on how supernatural events happen in other parts of the world, but not here. Thankfully, some of the people in her class disagreed.

He was right in a sense. There are countless stories of the supernatural in the Middle East at the moment, as well as in other places. I read an account on the Baptist Press website, of a Syrian woman who had fled to Beirut, and had encountered Jesus. She was a widow with kids, but since she was in a required 40 day period of mourning, none of the Islamic aid groups had offered to help her. A group of Christian aid workers knocked on her door. They were simply going to leave some food; for she had nothing to eat. But, she removed her veil and invited them in.

She told them that the night before, there was a knock at her door. She went to the window and no one was there. Then she heard a second knock. She fell asleep and a man put his hand on her shoulder and told her he knew she had been through pain and that he had too. He told her he would send her some people to tell her about him. The next day, the aid workers showed up.

She learned about the Gospel and took a Bible. She became a Christian.

There are countless other stories like hers. Just Google it.

I was having a conversation with the associate pastor of my church about God intervening in her life. She was in New York, far away from the Peach State, planning on attending a women’s seminar in Brooklyn. She got on a subway and was kind of lost. She approached a stranger, told her about the seminar, and asked her if she knew where the church was that she was looking for.

The woman smiled and told her yes, she was attending the same seminar and they could go together.

Now, here in the West, we would likely say that was a coincidence. However, what are the true chances of an out of towner not only encountering a friendly New Yorker, but one going to the same church seminar? There are over eight million people who live there.

The problem with us is not that God is not at work among us in big and small ways. Nope, the problem is that we don’t take the time to recognize it. When we don’t take quiet time and pray, we miss it. When we don’t look up from our phones, we miss it. In our busyness, we miss it.

Many of us have been so very blessed with abundance that we fail to see God working in the everyday. It’s not until we have had some sort of disaster that we finally notice Him. Make no mistake; He is at work.

But, if we really want to see His work, we have to slow down, pray, get quiet and be still. We might also need to prepare to be stunned. His work is often breathtaking.

Have an awesome day!

Wendy 🙂