Can You Hear Me Now?

Is every encounter in my daily life an opportunity for God to speak to me, or am I deceived?

He speaks to me through circumstances and through other people. Everything that confronts me in a day is effective in drawing me closer to Him. Everything. How can I question the Potter as He shapes me into His likeness? How can I judge how He uses others for my sanctification or me for theirs?

When I am connected, mind and spirit, I know that everything is perfect exactly the way it is. In peace or in chaos, law or grace, light or darkness, mercy or judgment, life or death, none of these are of any consequence to God because He is in it all.

Some days are better than others. Sometimes I am receptive, yielded to God's leading. Sometimes I resist. But I don't worry about it either way. My faith is not in myself or my ability to be righteous. My faith is in the one who is shaping me. I believe Him when He says that He is faithful to complete the work that He began in me.

How perfect the genius of God's hidden ways and how He uses the ordinary events of an ordinary day to shape us into His likeness.

This is a curious position in which to find myself, much more reliant on the unseen (God/spirit) than the seen (me). My spirit is strangely comforted in a peaceful way, even when I don't sense His immediate presence.

I would like to say that I always respond to challenges in a spiritual way, but I don't. He continues to press and shape me through daily events and people, speaking to me body, soul, and spirit, whispering amidst the chaos, "Can you hear me now?"