My emotions churned inside me this past week. I was searching for something and looking every which way but right in front of me. I prayed and prayed and prayed some more. A friend text me the same week asking for prayer. She needed God to intervene. I responded asking her if she needed God to intervene the way she wanted or the way he intended. I felt pretty proud of myself for being so bold. Funny how I could be so easily bold with her but completely oblivious to the fact that I was doing the same thing in my own life: I wanted God to intervene my way.
I sat down to talk about the book I was reading alongside a friend. We are currently reading through a book, watching a short video message on the book, and discussing our reactions each week. We both had a similar reaction: we just weren't feeling it. Even though each of us shed some tears as we talked, neither of us felt that moved by the book. We turned on the video kind of ho-hum and then our worlds were rocked. We both kept giggling because we knew it was time we ate our words. This study was going deep and we didn't even realize it.
What I realized today is that God is intervening; always. He is continuously intervening in my life even when I can't see it, feel it, or refuse to acknowledge it.
"Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them." Hebrews 7:25
So often, too often, I am looking everywhere but where he is. I have this vision for the way things should go and sometimes he thinks otherwise. When my vision or expectation doesn't match up with God's, I tend to think he is absent or not working in my particular situation. That could not be further from the truth. He is always working in and through my life. His ways may not look like my ways or match up with what I had in mind. That does not mean he is not at work.
As I sat at my little book study with my friend, I realized that he is constantly weaving his way in and through my life. He speaks to me through people, moments, and things I read and see on a daily basis. I don't always recognize his presence because I am too busy looking the other way or folding my arms in disdain wondering why this God who makes big promises isn't showing up in my life.
Today, God reminded me that while I may not feel it, he is there working overtime in my life. He is moving in a way that I will never comprehend. I need to work on aligning myself with him so that I may recognize when he is intervening on my behalf and accept that most of the time, his answers to my prayers will look vastly different than the picture I paint in my head.
Love & Blessings,
Meg
I sat down to talk about the book I was reading alongside a friend. We are currently reading through a book, watching a short video message on the book, and discussing our reactions each week. We both had a similar reaction: we just weren't feeling it. Even though each of us shed some tears as we talked, neither of us felt that moved by the book. We turned on the video kind of ho-hum and then our worlds were rocked. We both kept giggling because we knew it was time we ate our words. This study was going deep and we didn't even realize it.
What I realized today is that God is intervening; always. He is continuously intervening in my life even when I can't see it, feel it, or refuse to acknowledge it.
"Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them." Hebrews 7:25
So often, too often, I am looking everywhere but where he is. I have this vision for the way things should go and sometimes he thinks otherwise. When my vision or expectation doesn't match up with God's, I tend to think he is absent or not working in my particular situation. That could not be further from the truth. He is always working in and through my life. His ways may not look like my ways or match up with what I had in mind. That does not mean he is not at work.
As I sat at my little book study with my friend, I realized that he is constantly weaving his way in and through my life. He speaks to me through people, moments, and things I read and see on a daily basis. I don't always recognize his presence because I am too busy looking the other way or folding my arms in disdain wondering why this God who makes big promises isn't showing up in my life.
Today, God reminded me that while I may not feel it, he is there working overtime in my life. He is moving in a way that I will never comprehend. I need to work on aligning myself with him so that I may recognize when he is intervening on my behalf and accept that most of the time, his answers to my prayers will look vastly different than the picture I paint in my head.
Love & Blessings,
Meg
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