God is always at work around us. Whether we realize it or not, this is reality. As children we may have studied examples of God working in Scriptures. If you have heard them, how can you forget accounts of Moses and the Burning Bush or God parting the Red Sea? Yet with years passing, Bible stories may become simply stories in our adult memories. However, in reality, reports of God at work in the Bible are invitations for us to know and experience God ourselves.
This is true here in East Texas. God is still at work. We want to hear how you have seen Him. You have felt Him. Where you have seen Him. Let us continue to tell the stories of the God who parts the Red Sea, raises His Son from the dead, and redeems the lives of those who call on His name.
Ask that the Everlasting God would open your eyes to see Him. To experience Him. To be used by Him. To witness his constant and unending love. Then TAKE NOTICE and SHARE what your eyes, hearts, and lives have witnessed.
How are you EXPERIENCING GOD AT WORK?
WHERE are you seeing GOD AT WORK?
In WHAT WAYS has God been working around you?
I’ve seen God in and through American Idol.
Experiencing God has been a tricky thing for me lately. It just seems that the walls and doors to whatever shape or size I trap God into continue to be too small. You may be asking why I need to capture Him, well, to show Him off of course.
Lately, however, I’m realizing more and more that NOTHING can contain Him. He keeps getting bigger. A phrase that comes to mind lately is “Aslan is on the move”, because we’re in chapter 16 of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” in my house. He is on the move. Dead statues are coming to life. Dead bones are being used to do God’s work.
The only TV that my wife and I watch weekly is American Idol. Over the past two or three weeks, songs about Jesus and God and spiritual journeys have been predominant. Yesterday’s “Idol Gives Back” drive set me back on my heels. God is using skeptics and non believers to reach out and bring justice to the “least of these”. Faith without action is dead. God’s beauty is seen when His children love one another. Some people have just not recognized they are His, yet. They do realize they have a responsibility to care for fellow man, regardless of religion, race, or continent. I do not have the final number, I’m sure it will be in excess of $50 million that was raised.
If God is not in that, if God is not involved in love and justice for fellow man, … then where can He be found? I’ve spotted Him. He’s beautiful. He’s big. He’s uncontainable.
I can see God working through my life every day, especially at work. Just today, a lady that i had helped and was kind to several weeks ago came into my store to get her medicine filled. Her medicaid would not work until next tuesday due to some reason or the other, so i gave her a weeks supply of her medicine until her medicaid works. She leaned over and i gave her a hug. after the hug, she looked me in the eye and said thank you, i see that you really care in your heart. on her way out on crutches, she said that it was too slick to use her wheel chair today and that she would not go anywhere else. People can tell if you are genuine or not.
God is everywhere!! Every breath I take he is either teaching me in new faith, convicting me to let go and let Him, or just simply showing off how big He really is. Just this week He taught me how faithful He is to complete the work He begins in us by dropping resources and key people into my life in a very unexpected way. I’ve gotten to where I simply sit down like a little kid in anticipation and say…”okay Father, how are you going to do this one?” He loves to show off! He can get pretty creative, too. haha
With humility yet beaming pride we see God at work in the lives of our children. Roderick continues to amaze us as we see him take spiritual leadership at home, work, and church. He and his wife, Kamara, anxiously prepare to be parents and God is at work in their lives helping them make spiritual preparations as well. After all, the child will be God’s and Rod & Kam will be His instruments He will use to raise the child. Candice, our sojourner, is back in Texas but her heart is still in Central America. God is preparing her today for something great tomorrow. What & where is yet to be seen but isn’t it exciting as she prepares for the journey! Patti & I thank God for what He’s done & is doing in the lives of our children and how He uses us as clay jars to fulfill His purpose.
I’m trying to prepare myself for the Mission Mexico trip in June. I’ve put a slideshow of pictures of the kids on my computer. Everytime I walk in the room, there is a different smiling face.
I’ve been doing the homework using Jesse’s book. On day 5, all I could think about were the kids at Casa. When I read “God deliberately seeks out the weak things and the despised things because it is from them that He can receive the greatest glory”, it brings back memories of last years trip.
Several of the children were left on the streets by their parents. They had nothing. They begged for food and lived on streets that were far from safe. They are the most beautiful children with big brown eyes that glisten. They found their way to Casa de Esparanza, House of Hope.
When we first arrived at Casa and we hugged them all for the first time, we felt like we were sharing our love with them. When it’s time to leave and head home, we give them hugs . We know now that when they hug us they are giving us a much greater love. That’s the love we are supposed to share, a love much greater than our own.
This past week, after hearing Jerry’s sermon and the Small Group lesson about God is still actively working every day around us, I went to work at the Court House in Henderson, TX. I saw a friend that I had worked with years ago, who told me that he had been diagnosed with cancer. He said he was very distraught at first. Depressed, sad, angry, perplexed…all at once. Then, he said he prayed and turned it all over to God. Had surgery one year ago and has been cancer free since then. He said he never felt such a peace come over him, as he did we he laid his burden at God’s feet. God is active every day in all of our lives.
Sometimes I feel like there are days where I get so caught up in the day-to-day routine of life that I fail to see God at work around me. It’s easy to miss Him at work…even in the little things.
I was blessed to see God working powerfully through the eyes of my preschool children the other day. First of all, just watching their innocence is proof that God loves to work through even his littlest of children. During our circletime each morning, we start every day singing praise songs to God. The other day, we were singing “Shout Hallelujah” and I couldn’t help but smile at how heartfelt the children’s singing was as it filled our classroom. After our song ended, I was so encouraged by their praise that we talked for a moment about how God loves to hear us sing to Him. I told them that God surely was meaning forward to hear us and that surely the angels were dancing as we sang. I will never forget the look on little Justin’s face as he got the picture of God’s love for us in his mind. For an instant, he just glowed from the inside out and God came near to bless all of us. It was within another instant that we were off and running…back to wiggling in our chairs, falling OUT of our chairs, making our arms disappear inside our shirts, and talking endlessly with whoever was sitting next to us. But, for an instant, time stood still and God moved through our classroom.
That morning, I remembered why God has placed me where I am and He reminded me He is always at work…even in the “little” things. Thank you for the reminder, Father!