What God Is Doing
Saturday, February 27th, 2010 | Lent Meditations
The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get God to do something I think needs to be done, but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can respond to it and participate and take delight in it.
-Eugene Peterson
What is God doing around you and in you? It probably will not be what you expect, or where you expect it. He has a history of using unusual people to do out-of-the-ordinary things in out-of-the-way places. From opening a donkey’s mouth to speak His words to allowing the King of the universe to be born in a stable and grow up in a backwoods town (“What good thing ever came out of Nazareth?” they said), God delights in surprising us—and involving us.
Ephesians 2:10 says, “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” You were created by God with a job to do. God is doing things all around if only we would pay attention. One of the greatest joys we can ever experience as human beings is to be unexpectedly caught up in one of God’s beautiful, messy, extraordinary schemes through which He rescues someone or something we thought utterly irredeemable. Are you watching for Him?
God, please help me to see with Your eyes and love with Your heart. Give me an opportunity to be involved in what You are doing, and please give me the courage to join in when I see You working. In Jesus name, Amen.
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