Looking for God in EVERYTHING....

You know,


When I think about it, it's pretty easy to find God when I'm in tough situations with regard to my walk with Christ. I'm hurting, I'm in need, I reach out, and there He is. I see Him. I am seen of Him. I love it. But what about searching for God among the small, daily, and even mundane things that we've come so accustomed to managing, we haven't "looked" for God in those things in quite some time.


God I'm guilty.


I'm talking beyond family, and church... I've got to gain a manic desire to see Him in EVERYTHING. Where do we miss Gods presence?


In people...   (Matthew 25:31-46)


 ³¹When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
   ³²And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
   ³³And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
   ³⁴Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
   ³⁵For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
   ³⁶Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
   ³⁷Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
   ³⁸When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
   ³⁹Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
   ⁴⁰And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
   ⁴¹Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
   ⁴²For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
   ⁴³I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
   ⁴⁴Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
   ⁴⁵Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
   ⁴⁶And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.


Finding God is not so difficult. If I look hard enough, I will see Him in people. Where else have I missed God? If the scripture is right, some of us have missed God....


In Christ... (St. John 14:6-9)


 ⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
   ⁷If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
   ⁸Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
   ⁹Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?


Some of us desperately look for God, but don't realize that you find Him in Jesus Christ...


Check this out! Acts 17: 24-28


²⁴God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
   ²⁵Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
   ²⁶And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
   ²⁷That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
   ²⁸For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.


This is awesome. Paul is saying God created everything, and everything consists of God. God decided before the foundation of the world when nations should rise and fall. God also designed a very specific area to be inhabited by a specific people.


God is stupid awesome! Why did He do all this? What's the intricate plan behind God being so meticulous in His creation? Take a look at verse 27...


God wants us to look for Him. He wants us to search for Him. In everything. He made us to look for Him...


What happens when we look for God in our jobs, our conversation, and our behavior????


Our dress attire, our daily itinerary... God is waiting for us to look for Him in everything. He illustrates His might to show us that looking anywhere else is futile. Our everything is found in God.


Lord, I don't mind looking for you... Help me to see you...