Give the Lord a chance to show you how good He is. Great blessings belong to those who depend on Him! The Lord’s holy people should fear and respect Him. Those who respect Him will always have what they need. Psalm 34:8-9
“The “experiment” is interesting, although I am not very successful, thus far. The idea of God slips out of my sight for I suppose two thirds of every day, thus far. This morning I started out fresh, by finding a rich experience of God in the sunrise. Then I tried to let Him control my hands while I was shaving and dressing and eating breakfast. Now I am trying to let God control my hands as I pound the typewriter keys. If I could keep this morning up I should have a far higher average today than I have had for some time.
This afternoon as I look at the people teeming about me, and then think of God’s point of view, I feel that this mighty stretch of time in which He has been pushing men upward is to continue for many more millions of years. We are yet to become what the spiritual giants have been and more than many of them were. Here the selection favors those who keep themselves wide open toward God and wide awake. Our possibilities are perhaps not limitless, but they are at least infinitely above
our present possibilities of imagination.
There is nothing that we can do excepting to throw ourselves open to God. There is, there must be, so much more in Him than He can give us, because we are so sleepy and because our capacity is so pitifully small. It ought to be tremendously helpful to be able to acquire the habit of reaching out strongly after God’s thoughts, and to ask, “God what have you to put into my mind now if only I can be large enough?” That waiting, eager attitude ought to give God the chance he needs. I am finding every day that the best of the five or six ways in which I try to keep contact with God is for me to wait for his thoughts, to ask him to speak.”
Frank C. Laubach (1884-1970) in Letters By A Modern Mystic (Feedbooks: 2009) letter entitled, “Open toward God and wide awake.”
I think about giving daily, but rarely have had the notion of “give God the chance He needs” on my radar. It makes sense. Many people are moving about but few attuned to Him.
Those who try, and I will rank myself among them, fail even to stay connected the majority of a day. Too many actions of others or distractions around us shift our focus, redeploy our energies, capture our attention.
I hear today, the repeated clack of a train moving on the tracks as I move from Warsaw to Lviv. The faces of people tell stories. One reflects pain, another joy, another sadness, another mystery.
What does your resting face say? My often says focus! Today, I want it to say peace. Fill my heart with Your peace, Lord. Make me a conduit of your love. I wrote a book, that releases to the world today for this trip. I wrote it with my friend, Dr. Michael Cherenkov.
It’s called, REFUGE. Click to download it in English and in Ukrainian. Pray for me as I seek the heart of God as I travel. I want to give God the chance to speak through me to people when I preach twice tomorrow in two churches in Ternopil.
How might you give God a chance today?