God has been doing some awesome things in my life lately. He has put people together for His purpose and lined up other things for His glory. Too much to explain in detail, but just know that He has it all laid out meticulously and its really cool to see how the Lord brings it all together. Sorry for the vague words…
I call this Showing Off! God does it all the time, but do we open our eyes to see it and then open our hearts to give Him the credit?
Check out 1 Kings 18: 20-40. The prophet Elijah is boldly demonstrating why Israel needs to get rid of their Baal worship (totally a false and worthless god) and turn back to their One True God. I will let you read it and get the thrill of seeing how God blows them away-literally! But, take a look at the description of what the Lord does and then the reaction He gets from His people:
1 Kings 18:38-39 (New International Version)
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.
39 When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The LORD -he is God! The LORD -he is God!”
Oh that I would have this dramatic of a response to the Lord Showing Off as the Israelites did!
What ways has God blown you away and Showed Off His glory? Do you think you have missed seeing it by not simply paying attention?
Just a thought…
Yes! He is showing off!! And I love to see God’s people give HIM some glory!! It’s awesome!! love ya!
Yes, He is showing off. I needed some extra money and I love census work. It only comes around every 10 years and this year many people want the jobs for the money. But I got a supervisory job a few weeks ago. That was devine at my age; and then last week I was promoted to a wonderful job with GREAT pay and the work is even easier on me.
At 65 in a few days I call that spectacular in a down economy!!!