Right In Front Of You

 

I know it’s a generalization to say that husbands can’t find anything and their wives have to find everything for them, but it’s true in our household. Many is the time that I have searched for something and given up, only to have my wife find it in a matter of seconds. Sometimes the object is right in front of me and I somehow overlooked it.

 

We can fall into the same trap spiritually. We can go about our daily lives being tossed to-and-fro by events around us, our thoughts and emotions controlled by circumstance, up with the good, down with the bad, all the while overlooking all the ways that God is showing His love for us and making Himself known to us. When we recognize God’s presence and acknowledge Him, we find it easier to live in the peace and joy and love of His Spirit.

 

Jeremiah wrote to the Israelites after they were carried off into exile. The book of Lamentations is filled with grief, but Jeremiah also had hope because he knew God’s love and care for him.  He wrote, “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-23).  God’s love is still “new every morning”; He makes it known to us each day in a multitude of new and different ways, in all aspects of our lives.

 

Ask God this week to help you see the ways He has been working in your life and the ways that He is showing His love and care for you. Be open to seeing His hand in your circumstances and hearing His voice in your prayer time and in His Word. Thank Him for His wonderful love and faithfulness.

 

Paul prayed for the Ephesians, and he prays for us as well, “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:17-19).

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