I once had someone ask me..."Why haven't I had one of those earth-moving experiences with God?" She was always looking for an experience where God knocked her socks off! Because she waited most of her young life, she has strayed away from God.
There are others who are content to accept a God who doesn't do much of anything. They believe in God without a doubt. They go to church regularly but don't really think that God is active anymore. They believe in God in Heaven, they just don't see God on Earth.
Both sides miss something---they miss God. Neither truly experiences God fully and neither truly experiences this life. One is stuck on seeking the extraordinary experience; the other is stuck on experiencing nothing more than surface-level ordinary.
The clear experience of God is found in the ordinary, everyday things. There's no need to doubt the awesomeness of those intense, lightening-bolt God moments, but relying on them in order to believe is like missing most of a movie. The Scriptures tell us over and over that we will find God where we seek Him. If we seek Him only in Heaven, we won't find Him on earth. If we seek Him only in the intense, dramatic turnarounds, we will miss experiences of God. But, if we seek God in the moment-to-moment loves and pains of life with all our heart, then we will experience Him fully .
Are you waiting for bolts from the sky or are you allowing our God and Savior to be a part of the smallest, most ordinary moment of every day?
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