“We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the growth of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail. Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.” – Oswald Chambers
Many of us bounce back between two unhealthy perspectives of God’s involvement in our lives. The first one sees God in everything. Every good. Every bad. On the surface this isn’t bad, but when we go through trouble, it is easy to see Him as an afflicter and cruel taskmaster and not the God of comfort He is. The sorrows of our lives become His doing and in our response, we fail to see His loving hand in the redemption and not necessarily the creator of such circumstances. It is easy to move with every spirit within us instead of fully staying planted in His true will.
The second perspective is equally as worrisome. This one sees God in little. It is overly human and may border on deism – the belief that there is a God, but He is cold, distant, and impersonal. If I were to pick a default setting, this would be it for my personal walk. I am a pessimist by nature, and have heard many attribute conditions to His hand to their own detriment. I don’t know if I would communicate that God does not care about the small events of my life, though I probably live like it. As Chambers states, it takes a certain spiritual maturity to see God clearly in the small. I imagine there is a great encouragement in this – this devotion from the author alone helped to reframe my faith this morning.
Perhaps the greater question here is where are we robbing God credit or where do we not think He is capable of moving?
Where are you on the spectrum?
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