What a wonderfully productive day yesterday, Father! Thank You for Your guidance and the tenacity to stick to it. I know I take lots of breaks, I stand up and stretch, take care of a couple things, then back to it…so thank You for Your patience as well. We all benefited from Your presence in our Holy Week service last night – may we be unable to escape the realities of that day as we go through our routines this day. Amen.

Matthew 11:7-15 (<<click the green)

A regular occurrence at my job in the Jewelry Department at Kohl’s is asking a customer if I can assist them and being told, “I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for but I’ll know it when I see it.” Others come in and know exactly what they are looking for and all I have to do is get it out of the case for them.

As sojourners on this trek of life are we any different?

When John the Baptist began his ministry, people were drawn to him. Lord Jesus, You asked, “What kind of man did you go into the wilderness to see? Was he a weak reed…? …a man dressed in expensive clothes? No… Were you looking for a prophet? Yes…”

I believe people of every age are looking. Some may know for what they are looking and others hold firmly to the belief that don’t know exactly what they are looking for but that they’ll know it when they see it.

It is an old adage that we all have a God-shaped hole in our soul. And though we may attempt to fill it with a wide assortment of things – fame, power, food, drugs, alcohol, sex and on and on only one thing will fit…You. We may or may not realize it but every one of is looking for something and that something is You. Some of us embrace the reality of who You are and many do absolutely everything within their power to shove that reality so far down in their psyche that they come to believe their own created reality.

There are also some stuck in the middle. They don’t know enough to embrace You or reject You. They are in sort of a limbo.

Paul proclaims in Romans 10:13-15,

For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!”

Lord, may I have beautiful feet! I earnestly pray that I proclaim Your message not just from behind a pulpit but may I proclaim You through every word and action of my life. May I be attuned every moment of every day to You so that I may help seekers find that for which they are seeking. Amen.

Mar 3th, 2018, Fri, 6:36 am