It is those who have had God act in their lives that have a story to tell, that are not fooled by this “we are living in a post Christian age” talk the world seems to be spouting these days. God understands broken things and helps to put them back together again. God works in everybody’s life. But it does seem to be the broken one’s who recognize the work of God. Those who are seeking something that transcends this ordinary life find it and then realize that God was at work all the time in their ordinary life, but they failed to notice it.
In this fast paced world it is easy to miss a lot of God’s works. We can get lost in the doing of things and miss what’s been done. We focus on feeding the poor, but often miss the stories the poor have to tell us. We build monuments to the famous, and consecrate some places as “Holy places” to make a pilgrimage to, but neglect to see the works of God right outside our windows. The sun rises, the sunsets, the starry moonlit nights, the clouds wisping by bringing rain or snow, the squirrels and birds coming for early morning breakfast, the hawks gliding for what seems like forever, without moving their wings. Life at its most ordinary, all works of God. When I take the time to be in God’s Presence, to let him touch my brokenness, and to reveal himself in all that surrounds me, I will be able to speak of marvelous things.
“But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works” (Psalm 73:28).
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