You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
– Jeremiah 29:13
As a pastor, I get to have all sorts of conversations with people. Some stem from tragic events, some are for advice, some relate to conflict. Those are all essential conversations that are taken very seriously.
But then there are the other ones. The ones I get excited about. It’s those conversations where people can’t wait to tell me what God has done or has shown them. Many times, initially it may seem like the most inconvenient moment, but as they share I can’t help but be pulled into their rejoicing.
Everything from the expression on their face, the tone of their voice, their body language and of course the words they are speaking testifies to a supernatural encounter with the Holy Spirit. Of course it’s supernatural, because it transcends our natural worldly experiences. It’s something so much more, so much greater.
It’s life changing. And not only for that person, but for everyone else that is included in the retelling of how God interacted with them.
There is no doubt each unique testimony is special and impactful and should be celebrated. However, could we be mistaken if we fall into a mindset that tells us these God interactions are a rarity? That if God works in such ways it’s few and far between? That it could never happen to us personally?
Because of sin and the inevitable separation that it causes with a righteous God, our human nature expects to have no personal interaction with a righteous God beyond our own rational. Faith becomes an abstract concept, irrational and confined to our minute understanding of something greater than what we can comprehend with our limited understanding.
But Jesus changes all that.
When the sin issue is dealt with, the faith effect is nourished. Light floods into the darkness. Our relationship with Jesus begins to take root and grow. Believing becomes seeing and seeing begins to define the personal relationship we now have with Christ.
We begin to have new questions. We move from, “Does God really exist” to “How can I hear God more clearly and more often?”
What a wonderful place to be!
It builds our faith and places us in a position of expectation.
Do you expect to hear and see God working in your life?
How have you seen God revealing and working in and around you today?
How about this week?
What have you done to see God work in your life this week, today?
There is no doubt God is speaking. He is always speaking through His Word, the Scriptures. He also speaks to us when we pray. He speaks through the little things. He even speaks through the hard things. How have you positioned yourself to listen and hear today?
And when God does something in your life, are you sharing it with others?
Jason Metz, lead Pastor
