Acknowledging God

Acknowledging God

Dear Champions,

The short excerpt is by Ron Hutchcraft, and the Scripture is in the excerpt.     

 

Proverbs 3:5 says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding." Notice what's the opposite of trusting in the Lord with all your own heart--trying to figure it out for yourself, doing what you think is best...leaning on your own understanding.

 

Verse 6 says, "In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths."  The other day I was really blessed in a place not normally associated with blessing—the dentist's office. I was in the waiting room and I saw an old friend with his wife--they're both in their 90s. He's working hard to care for his wife because her health is really deteriorating. Because it had been raining when they came in, my friend asked the dentist if he could help him get his wife out to the car. My dentist came back in, really touched by what had happened in those two minutes--so touched that he brought it up two more times. He said, "When I went out with George and his wife, it wasn't raining. And George said, 'Isn't it great that the Lord stopped the rain long enough for us to get out to the car?' Then he just looked heavenward and said, 'Thanks, Father.'"

 

Now that's acknowledging Him. That's noticing God's working in the details of your day. And that's where praise comes from...where joy comes from...where a victorious attitude comes from in the toughest of times. But you have to go into your day looking for God at work. If you don't, you'll miss God and you'll miss the joy.

 

If you haven't been seeing God a lot lately, you may have been focused on your circumstances...other people...or yourself--you've missed the fingerprints of God all over your day. The little mercies, the small miracles, the interventions, the encouraging surprises, the bad things that didn't happen. I know there's never a day where He doesn't show up because His "mercies are new every morning!"  You'll see God all over your day--if you're looking for Him.

 

Champions, have a great week!-David Vining