It’s so easy to get caught up in the craziness of life and we’re running at break-neck speed all hours of the day and we barely have a second to stop and breath, let alone cultivate a deeper relationship with God.
That’s just supposed to go without saying, right? God knows we love Him, so even if we’re not outwardly praising Him every hour of the day, He still knows how we feel on the inside.
So it’s all good, right?
But what about when we start to get stressed, and life begins to overwhelm us.
Who or what do you turn to first?
Stop and think about that for a second, and be really honest with yourself.
It can be really easy to turn to 100 other sources before finally turning to God in our hour of need or desperation.
I know I’ve certainly done the same, so I wanted to share two quick points on how to find God in our daily lives.
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Make small changes to create quiet time on a daily basis.
This can be as simple as not putting the radio or ipod on when you’re going to work. Instead, begin to take that commuting time as a special time to talk with God. Showing Him you want to have a deeper and more meaningful relationship by creating the time.
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Listen to that still, small, voice.
Once you’ve accepted Christ as your Savior and the Holy Spirit comes to live in your heart, the communication is more like a heightened “intuition” or “conscience.” It’s a silly reference, but if you’ve ever watched Disney’s Pinocchio, then recall Jiminy Cricket’s song, “Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide.” This actually is a great way to look at it! The Holy Spirit helps us to determine right from wrong, but you have to begin to listen to those inklings and inner “pullings” or “callings” and your confidence in trusting it will build your faith and your bond with God.
These simple changes, when made deliberately and regularly, can really begin to help you see God in your daily activities. You will begin to feel more confident that He has always been a part of your life, every day, if you just take the time to begin to recognize it. 🙂
Your Sister in Christ,
Melody
A beautiful fire rainbow appeared over the South Carolina sky this past week, on Sunday August 16, 2015. What a beautiful reminder of God’s covenant with us, made with Noah after the great flood.
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
Genesis 6:12-16
What a beautiful reminder that rainbows in the sky mean something. They’re not just pretty phenomena created by light passing through droplets of water.
Science can explain away whatever they want, but they are a sign that God is living and breathing and watching over us and communicating to us that He loves us and He keeps his promises…..and in turn, we should keep ours.
And isn’t it fitting that the fire rainbow in the image looks like a dove? The symbol of life after the flood?! That is such beautiful symbolism. Does it look like a dove to anyone else? That is the first thing I saw when I saw these images coming in from this past Sunday.
“When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.”
Genesis 8:11
My final thoughts after seeing the dove-shaped fire rainbow. If you grew up in the church like I did, you’ve learned your fair share of hymns. There are some really great oldies that just warm my heart. And when I saw this image, this one came to mind.
Published in 1862 in the Atlantic Monthly, written by Julia Ward Howe.
Sing along if you know it…:)
“Glory glory, Hallelujah! His truth is marching on!”
For your listening pleasure, here’s a old-school rendition performed with a mixed quartet in 1908. Enjoy!
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Sometimes we need to get back to the basics…aka the Bible’s teachings instead of what begins to become “the norm” from societies standards. Are you recognizing if some of your thoughts or standards are slipping when compared to God’s standard?
