God Is Never Missing

​One big lesson I have learned in my life is to never get to believing I have any idea who and how and when God can and will use someone.

There have been many moments when people rightfully could have said, "that guy needs God in his life." And yet standing right beside me, quite unknown to them and me, was a God saying, "I am already here."

People rightfully could have been suggesting - "that guy needs a miracle in his life" - completely unaware one was already in the works.

So often we miss God at work because we get to believing we know better than God who and what God can use. We miss God at work because we get to believing we are better at spotting the signs of God than God is at creating them.

We have challenges in our lives, enemies, and maybe we get to praying God will intervene in their lives. Make them less unlikable. Well, it is my experience that God has a knack for using enemies to intervene in MY life. How on earth can God help me understand the power and beauty of HIS forgiveness if he doesn't help me discover the power of my own?

God is working. Just because it doesn't look like the kind of work I'd like it to look like doesn't mean God isn't working.

God is working. Just because the person that God is working through doesn't look and act the way I'd like them to doesn't mean God isn't working.

God's closest followers watched God die on a cross and walked away believing they'd been wrong about God all along. Turns out what they were most wrong about was how they thought about who and what God could use to create his story.

We never - not ever - know better than God when it comes to knowing what God is up to.

Maybe you have things going on in your life and you've come to believe - God surely can't use this. I am here to remind you, as someone who has seen God re-write the story of some pretty evil things in my life - surely he can.

Maybe you have someone in your life and you've come to believe - God surely can't use them. I am here to remind you, as someone who has been written off by self and by others more times than I can count - surely he can.

And he will.

God's gift is seeing and doing things we can't or won't see or do ourselves. That makes us really good at missing God.

Well, I have come to believe this about my life.

Quite strongly:

God is never missing.