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Remember, God is still God, regardless of what is happening around us. | New Hope for the Week
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Remember, God is still God, regardless of what is happening around us.

Today I will:

  • purpose to seek God in the midst of urgent demands
  • accept that there is no season of my life that I can do without God
  • let God create an inner peace in me that will shine to the outside world

“Blessed (happy, enviably fortunate, and spiritually prosperous—possessing the happiness produced by the experience of God’s favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His grace, regardless of their outward conditions) are the pure in heart, for they shall see God!” Matthew 5:8 (AMP)

What is the really important thing in life? It always seems that if we can just get the answer to this question, then everything else will work out around us. But the answer seems to change depending on the place we are in our lives, the time of month it is and what bills are due, the season of the year it is and what activities each brings, as well as any number of factors that can change our focus in a given moment. It seems that wherever we are in our lives, we believe that just as soon as we get through this next thing this next project is done, soccer season is over, the play is finally performed, that next promotion comes, or whatever else we have going on-we can finally relax a bit and get a better direction for our lives.

Yet hearing from God hasn't changed in six thousand years. It is still done the same way today as it was by Adam, Abraham, Joseph, and Moses. Perhaps none of them had so many other "noises" around them to constantly contend with. But even in the relatively quiet and slower-paced world they lived in, only those who truly sought God heard Him. To hear God's voice, they had to go out of their way to find a quiet place, sit, pray, and listen patiently for the answer. And God didn't reveal himself to them all at once. Over time they got to know Him more and more as they showed the desire to know Him more and more-whether they were in a field tending sheep or in the midst of a battle to protect God's people.

We need to learn to do the same. We need to seek God every day regardless of our circumstances. Once we get that right, we might start seeing more of Him in the world around us.