Finding GOD in our Midsts

Encountering GOD in our daily lives may be seen a great and awesome challenge. Many people wait to encounter God on his day, Sunday. Others wait for the Holidays (or Holy Days--traditional root of the word holiday). Still others wait to only encounter God in moments of trajedy, peril or despair.


However, learning to encounter God in our midsts is how we come, not only to glorify Him, but also to edify our existence and daily living. Do we wait for those major moments in life to turn to Him? Do we seek Him in his Greatness? When do we search for Him?

1 Kings 19: 11-13 states:

The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

Elijah was being persecuted for following God and being one of his prophets. When in the Mountain, he encountered a great wind, and God was not in the great wind. He encountered an earthquake, but God was not in the earthquake. He enountered a great fire, but God was not in the fire. He encountered God in a gentle whisper. In the least likely of moments, was when Elijah was able to come to encounter God. Like Elijah, we too must work and toil to encounter God in the least likely of moments--the ordinary moments of life.

It is in those ordinary moments of life that we are more likely to encounter God. It is in the encounter of those we meet (from those we meet for the first time, to those we meet on a daily basis) that we come to meet God. From the one that transgress against us, to those who love us, God is walking in our midsts.

For those who are not Christian or Jewish, this is also true. A sense of a higher power is also encountered in the ordinary moments in life. The people that are encountered on a daily living pass on that same sense. It is in those ordinary moments and encounters that our lives are enlightened.

Ask yourself:

How do we encounter God? Do we find Him in the ordinary moments in life? Do we seek Him out in those we encounter? Do we see Him in those we meet for the first time? Do listen to Him when those we know and trust speak to us? Do we search for Him when we work, play, rest and live our lives or do we only seek Him out in the grand moments of life or on holy days?

Full of Wisdom

P.S.--"Non nisi te!" [Without you, nothing!]--St. Augustine

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