Don’t miss your chance

This morning I can’t get this instance out of my mind.

Last week I was sitting in Carmax selling my truck, and I missed my chance. Not my chance to get a good deal, not my chance to save money, but my chance to show God to people. And I wish I would have just opened my spiritual eyes to see what God was doing.
It was cold and rainy outside. A homeless man came in with a basket of banana nut bread ( which is the best gift known to man). He came in to sell it to raise money for his shelter, which could or couldn’t be real, but that’s not the point. He began to share his story of how God helped him over come his addiction and had saved his life. I sat there listening intently, and these stupid words came out of my mouth:
“Sorry man, I don’t have any cash on me…”

And that was how I left it. As soon as the man left, I knew I had missed the opportunity to just simply pray for a hurting human.

This morning don’t miss your chance to show people God. Don’t miss your chance to build a relationship and speak life today.

How can we not?

How can we not see what God is doing?

How can we not feel God’s love?

How can we not encounter the grace of God every morning?

How can we not rejoice when we see God’s beauty around us?

How can we not realize that we are apart of something so much bigger than ourselves?

How can we not be so consumed by the Spirit of God that we only focus on Him?

How can we not worship God with everything we are when He has made us everything we are?

How can we not want a relationship with the greatest artist of all time?

How can we not be amazed that the God of all creation took the time to form us, to create us, to love us, sent His son to die for us?

How can we not realize how unworthy we are of all of that?

There are some who have never encountered the love that God freely gives. We need to realize that God is longing, He is yearning to just be with us. Christ died for us to have a direct relationship with God. So how can we not pursue that same relationship?

We consume ourselves with everything around us when we should be consumed by the Spirit of God inside of us.

Let God consume you with His never ending, never failing, never leaving love.

How can we not be so consumed with the love of God that the people around us can’t help but believe in Him?

Be Better For It

We lose track.

We lose track of time, we lose track of people, we lose track of life, we lose track of God. We get so caught up in ourselves and what we have going on, we miss what God has blessed us with.

Short and sweet version: We need to stop worrying about everything that is wrong with everything else and focus on everything that is right about everything God is doing in us and through us.

Not as short, but still sweet version: We put so much focus on fixing what is wrong around us and we miss everything that is right. I can say this because I constantly catch myself doing it. I have found I am focused more on what God has blessed me with rather than focusing on the God that blessed me to begin with.We lose track of how great God is, everything He is constantly blessing us with. If we took more time to realize how much we don’t deserve God’s love but how graciously He gives it, we would be better for it.

Be better for it.