What a day! Sunday, I awoke at 2:30AM. Anxiety? Perhaps a little. Frustration at the bright lights in my eyes...oh yes! Prayer, then a little sleep. It was the coldest morning of the fall. I dressed in my favorite insulated running gear. (Not to worry...I changed before the service began.) It was still cold. Weather, distractions, frustrations nor anxiety did not hinder God! He moved in an incredible way at our TMT Commitment Celebration Service. His timing - flawless. His ways incomprehensible!
We offered our time, energy, music, presentations, testimonies, readings, service, fellowship, voices, friendship. All these in total abandon to His purpose for the day. And He moved in hearts and lives!
What's more, He was not limited by geography. Elevate had their preview service at 12EST/9PST. Sixty-five in attendance and 1 salvation! God continues move among His people and draw those who are His to Himself.
Now, why does this amaze me so? Pardon my humanity. I am still handicapped by my inability to comprehend His ways. The omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent Maker of the universe is able to do all things. Yes, I know this! It's another thing to really wrap my mind around it. And I, limited to time, space and this present world, still struggle to understand.
Call it a lack of faith, but I think it's more about the space I'm confined to. I feel so small, and yet so humbled that He allows me in my smallness to be a part of what He is doing. Throughout scripture, God uses the insignificant, the flawed, the impossible for His will and to accomplish His purpose. I'm glad He chooses to engage us, the creation made in His image, even when He can do it all by Himself.
My grandfather accepted Christ on the banks of the Rhine river during WWII after a tracer bullet barely missed him. When he would share about his salvation experience, he would say, "Sometimes God sends a tracer bullet, but other times He just sends you or me." Yeah, I think that sums it up!
Psalm 86:12 "I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And I will glorify Your name forevermore.".
