Once again, we continue today to explore a very critical spiritual disciple that we call Going on a God Hunt. What we’re doing is learning how to look for evidences of God making His presence known in our everyday worlds. Specifically, we’re exploring evidence of God giving us help to do His work in this world.
As we wrapped up on Friday, Sushannah was lost. I was sharing with you from Chapter 3 of the book, I Spy God.
“Sus!” He shouted this time—wait! Wait! Someone was moving inside. It was Muffy! He heard Muffy barking.
But Loser’s heart sank again. A new and terrible thought hit him. What if Muffy had crawled inside and become trapped? He had done that before. What if Susannah had not wanted them to know she was sneaking around the cabin? What if she had gone off by herself, and this was where Muffy had been all morning, curled up and napping, while Sus slipped into the river?
Then Loser heard a little voice. It was a muffled and little and sleepy voice, but the most wonderful voice in the world.
“I knew you wash inshide, Losher. I knew all along you wash inshide. Let me out. I’m shtuck. Muffy and me’sh shtuck under here.”
Fearing I have now made my blog post too childish for some of you (if that’s really possible), let me offer you a quotation from Thomas Aquinas, brilliant Italian theologian and philosopher who spent much of his life writing about the conflict between faith and reason. Please read carefully what he writes:
Grant me, O Lord my God,
A heart to seek You
And a hope of finally embracing You.
Apparently even this man with a brilliant mind liked being on a God Hunt.
Please allow me now to put what I’m saying into a sentence that will succinctly summarizes my blog posts on this subject of helping to do God’s work in this world:
“Serving God becomes most exciting when we look for divine help to do his work in the world.”
You see, you develop a mindset that expects this. You don’t just grind things out on your own. Instead, you almost automatically ask for help when you feel you need it. And then, almost before you know it, there it is! God’s activity never ceases to surprise you.
I’d say it’s that special factor that makes service for Him so delightful. And it’s all a part of being on the daily God Hunt.. May I share that key sentence with you again? Okay, here it is:
“Serving God becomes most exciting when we look for divine help to do his work in the world.”
I think I will let you ponder that key sentence for the rest of today. I’ll plan to post another blog tomorrow to continue our discussion about seeing God’s Hand at work in our daily lives.
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