FollowI was talking with Nate a while back and he wanted to show me a video he saw on YouTube. It was a guy on a talk show discussing all the amazing things we have in our world and how we like to complain about them. His main amazing thing was the fact that we can fly from New York to Los Angeles in six hours, and yet we complain when our flight takes off late. What used to take years now takes hours, and we complain about our flight being late. He kept saying, “Everything is amazing and nobody’s happy.”
That got my mind thinking about how active God is in the world and how we sometimes don’t even recognize it. So many people in Christianity are asking the question “Where are You, God?” That is not the right question. The right question is, “Where are You not, God?”
“O LORD, You have searched me and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue You know it completely, O LORD. You hem me in—behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? If I go up to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in the depths, You are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there Your hand will guide me, Your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You. For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” Psalm 139:1-14
God is always with us. He will never leave us. Even when we feel like He is not there, He is there. There is nowhere we can go from the presence of our God. That is an amazing truth. We see that all over the Word of God, but we feel alone, as though He is not with us. We have an amazing God, and we forget it. We have a present God, and we complain when we fail to see Him work. Many times the reason we don’t see the works of God is because He is working in a way which we are not expecting or looking for.
In this season of celebrating the birth of Jesus, remember that God the Son came down to this earth and became human for us. He came to live a life worth following and emulating. He also came to die the death we deserved. He didn’t stay dead, but He rose again and is now in heaven, and He has not left us alone. We have His Spirit present in our life. We are never separated from His presence. We have an amazing God; we need to recognize it, and it needs to lead to joy and peace during our time on earth.
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