If you’ve just found this blog, you may wonder what I’m writing about, let me hasten to explain that for quite a few blog posts I’ve been trying to share an enormously important spiritual discipline that I call Going on a God Hunt.You see, I believe fervently that God continually reaches out His Hand of Love to touch our daily lives. He’s always present and always working to help us in our walk with Him. The problem is that we have not trained our natural eyes and our spiritual “eyes” to see Him working for our benefit.
So, through these blog posts, I’m hoping to nudge you into beginning to look for God at work in your life in four specific ways:
- Obvious answers to prayer
- Unexpected evidences of God’s care
- Help to do God’s work in the word, and
- Unusual items of linkage and timing,
Once you learn how to spot God at work in your life, it becomes very important that you take time daily to record your God Hunt Sightings. You can use almost any kind of notebook to keep this written record. And, the end of the day usually offers the best time to write down your Sightings. But, you can choose any time of day that best fits your schedule. What you’re doing is prayerfully replaying your day. As you start through the replay, you keep in mind the four types of God Hunt Sightings mentioned above. Don’t become discouraged. It takes time to develop any discipline worth adding to your life.
In my own case, I would feel badly if I went for even a couple of days and there was nothing that came to mind. That’s because I truly believe God actively involves Himself in our lives on a regular basis. And when we start to see this, it makes for a most delightful relationship.
I encourage you to deliberately expand your God Hunt knowledge this week to include help He gives you to perform your acts of service on the Lord’s behalf. Become conscious of His involvement with you as you minister in His name. Don’t be content to just do it on your own. Insist on His participation. He won’t mind. This is a lesson He’s been wanting you to learn for some time now.
Join in the fun, okay? Don’t miss out on this critically important spiritual disciple. As my wife, Karen, writes in her book The God Hunt: The Delightful Chase and the Wonder of Being Found:
No matter what it is you are seeking—treasures on the ocean’s floor, designer labels in a resale shop, rare birds in the lofty tree-tops, pennies in the grass, the contents of a list for a teenager’s scavenger hunt, wildflowers in a spring woods or first editions in a used book store—there is a thrill when you find it. That same delicious anticipation, that same excitement should be present when we hunt for God.
Well, that’s it for today’s blog post. Tomorrow, I will post one of my “Preaching Tips”s for pastors. But, I’ll plan to be back on Thursday with yet another blog post about Going on a God Hunt. I very much hope you’ll come back to join me.
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