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Sitting in Julie Meyer’s workshop, An Invitation to Encounter, was a great reminder that every day we have opportunities for an encounter with God. We miss it many times because we looking for the grandiose – something really big. But she reminded us that God is god of the small things too.
Moses was tending the sheep in the desert, a mundane, routine job – bored out of his head. He saw a bush burning which wasn’t totally unheard of in the desert because of the intense heat and dryness of the vegetation. But the Word says that “he turned and looked.” His attention was caught and he had an “invitation to an encounter.”
He could have brushed it off as a normal happening and just walked on, but he turned and looked. Because he turned and looked God called to him out of the bush. Wow!! I know we’d like that to happen today. Are we expecting it? Are we looking for divine encounters in our everyday life situations? Or, are we missing them because we’re looking for fire and wind and smoke and the miraculous?
God is inviting us every day in big and small ways to have an encounter with Him. That encounter may be like the Brazilian housekeeper who was responsible for winning Stephen Baldwin and his wife to the Lord. In her routine day of washing dishes, mopping floors she testified to the goodness of God to these people and now they are reaching
Watch for opportunities for an encounter with God. It may be Him using you to minister to someone or receiving from someone else. It may be His voice through a song, a slogan, a deed done. But God is pursuing us, waiting for us to respond to His invitation.
Life is an invitation to encounter God today – heads up, be aware, alert, expecting an encounter at any moment. Like Candid Camera, "When you least expect it, smile '-- a divine encounter is waiting. Turn and look – respond to His invitation for an encounter today.
1 comment:
Angela,
I agree we could miss divine encounters in everyday life because we are looking for the grandiose . . . perhaps fire, wind, etc. or even expectations we put on ourselves. We touched on this at Quest tonight. Perhaps in looking at what the world is trying to convince us is grandiose, we are missing the fact that we are living the grandiose throughout are everyday lives. We are having our time with the Lord, loving our husbands, children, using our gifts and talents, and looking for divine encounters. It may look like small things but they are the big things --maybe not what the world says-- but we don't want to miss the big things we have in our everyday life that may look like small things to the world. It's like always looking for something bigger or better and then realizing later that you had the best all along and just never realized it.
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