Eyes to See…

I’ve been reading in Ezekiel for a week or so and there is a recurring phrase which is some variation of…‘then you will know that I am the Lord’.  There are roughly 50 occurrences of variations of that phrase.

How many things happen in the average day for you that could inspire you to know that He is the Lord?  Here are some for me:

·      Yesterday I was with a team of people at the Samaritan Community Center devoted to helping people break situational and generational poverty in God’s Name…now I know that You are the Lord

·      God has given me a front row seat to partner with guys hungry to grow in their relationship with Christ…now I know that You are the Lord

·      Thankfully it’s not a contest, because it’s not possible to decide if watching people pick up sobriety chips at Celebrate Recovery or watching people pick up surrender chips at CR is more powerful, but both should lead me to think…now I know that You are the Lord

It’s more natural to identify and credit God with the unexplainable things we see, but do we take time to look for, acknowledge and thank God for things that are explainable that we may take for granted?

May I encourage you to take a few moments to give God the credit and look for Him in all things whether they seem mundane or miraculous, divinely inspired or daily inconveniences, coincidental or coordinated by God.

In his great book Atomic Habits, James Clear shared that 10M of the 11M sensory receptors in our bodies are dedicated to sight.  Based on this, Clear states that: ”Visual cues are the greatest catalyst for behavior (therefore) small changes in what you see can lead to big changes to what you do.”

Just by looking at things as if they are more proofs of a Creator and of His love for us will generate changes in us.

May we have eyes to see and ears to hear the ways God makes Himself available to us so that we can know that He is the Lord.