“Ears to hear and eyes to see — both are gifts from the Lord.” —Proverbs 20:12
Some things you can't remind yourself of enough. Things like this: God is so awesome and huge that He cannot be contained…by days of fog, or events, or people or our own limited understanding of just about everything.
Or, of ourselves.
“Ears to hear and eyes to see”…and He is so awesome and huge, no two are ever alike, and each one hears and sees things that others cannot but that someone needs to hear and see.
In the same way, to each He has given unique hands, feet, intellect, creativity, and more.
Our God is so awesome and huge that none have ever been duplicated. Ever.
On purpose. For others. For His glory.
Every detail of all that He has ever made matters.
And every life He has ever made — yours and mine and others — matters.
How do we know?
"God began by making one person (Adam), and from him came all the different people who live everywhere in the world. God decided exactly when and where they must live. God wanted them to look for Him and perhaps search all around and find Him…though He is not far from any of us: ‘By His power, we live and move and exist’…’for we are His children.’” (Acts 17:26-28, New Century).
Which means this…
“It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that He didn’t call you there so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace.”
—Francis Chan
Because our God is so awesome and huge, in magnificence, presence and Love, that He is too big to be confined to some church building once a week.
His church, after all, has no walls...just eyes, ears, hands and feet.
And yet no one and no place and no back road and no prayer closet is beyond His notice and care.
And that means that you and I, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we’ve got going for us (or not), are here — wherever here may be — on purpose and for His purpose.
Ears to hear, eyes to see, and everything else.
We’re no accident.
So, never forget that we’re never forgotten.
He’s always nearer than you and I can ever imagine, even when we can’t see in front of us…
You've come and burned me with a kiss”…
Our God is so awesome and huge that wherever we go this year, every year — with our very own ears to hear and eyes to see, and everything else — there He is!
So, we best be going…
“True godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but tenants, and at will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm—the world that we live upon.”
—William Penn
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