Tuesday, May 12, 2015
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When I was a kid, someone came up with a new idea for entertainment. No, not hieroglyphics! It's called 3-D movies. They've actually made a comeback in recent years and they might even be more popular than they were back then. Back then, we put on these cardboard sunglasses. Boy, what a fashion statement! Now they are at least plastic. And just like then, things begin walking toward the screen, and then they walk right out of the screen and they walk practically into your face. Of course, when you take those glasses off, it's just a flat old screen again. But when you have those glasses on, you see things you otherwise would never have seen.
I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "Your Daily God Hunt."
People ask me, "How do you get the analogies you use in A Word With You?" Our word for today from the Word of God is actually part of the answer. Proverbs 24:32, "I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw." Now, here was King Solomon, a very wise man. He said, "I go out looking for lessons. And from what I see, I apply my heart to the things that I see around me all day." See, he got his glasses on. And when he did, he got to see the hand of God in everyday stuff.
There's a hymn called I Am His And He Is Mine. I just remember so vividly the words of the second verse. "Heaven above is deeper blue; earth below is deeper green. There's a brightness in each hue Christless eyes have never seen." See, if you know God as your Father, and you put your trust in Jesus as Savior, then you can say, "This is my Father's world." He's working all around you all the time, every day, and you can see Him. You can learn from Him if you put your glasses on each day. I call them your 4-D, 4-dimension glasses to see the God dimension, because it's working all around us.
You been moping around lately? It's probably because you've lost the perspective of David that he said makes people joyful. Psalm 118:24, "This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it." He made this day what it is. You say, "My boss! My family made this day, my mate made this day, my bills, my health, my to-do list makes this day what it is. I'm sorry you're stuck in the middle of your 3-dimensional world. "This is the day the Lord has made!"
So you go on a "God hunt" every day; looking for the Lord in the events of your day, the conversations of your day, your traffic jams, your delays, your surprises, your interruptions, the people, the stores. Moses saw the Lord in a desert bush. Balaam heard God's voice through his donkey. Levi met Jesus in the middle of a workday.
This is where praise comes from, in the common stuff of a day. See, if you look through your 4-D glasses, your God glasses, suddenly you've sensed God in your phone calls, your emails, your interruptions that can't be avoided, that word of encouragement somebody gives you. There's the Lord in that little child. He's speaking in that powerful storm now, in the geese flying by overhead. He's in the unanticipated help you just got in your life. You find yourself thanking God often throughout the day. Guess what? You don't complain as much.
How many times have we confined our God in our theology and our beliefs; this religious compartment of our life? But when you put on your 4-D glasses, you start to walk with your God throughout your day. You see His fingerprints on things you never saw them on before and God becomes more and more real to you. As you do that with your family, He becomes more and more real to them as you share your God-sightings.
He wants to show you all kinds of things about Him in the everyday stuff of your day. So, put on your God-tinted glasses and see in 4-D the beauty of the world your Father has made.