Advent Devotional

Matthew 1: 2-17

I have over 5,000 in my Facebook account, so I decided that, to do this year’s Advent devotional I would ask a very simple question: How it is you see God in your lives?

One person wrote of her infidelity and the hope to be able to reconcile with her husband. Her time to regain his trust led to a healthy happy baby girl and how she thanks God for this miracle.

Another simply asked that I pray for her.

One said she wants to leave church a better person than when she came. To her, in God’s eyes we are the wonder He created and that in her lifetime she aspires to be the person He intended her to be.

Another thinks God moves mountains for us; is a teacher who empowers us to live a life of blessing; is a spirit never leaving us to face anything alone; a majestic ruler of the universe; and our Father who calls us His own.

A provocative answer called God an energy — one you will not meet but one you will see everywhere from the greatest and tiniest things and facts in life and beyond life.

I thought it would be easier to summarize what it is we all see to be God working in our life. It was not. I think if I took things from these answers I would say it is an energy, it is a mover of mountains, one who is there no matter how tiny the thing in life we have going on, one who we turn to for prayer; a redeemer who sees the flaws in a person’s life and still rewards one with a gift so precious that it humbles us to this day.

I think if I could say how I see God in my life? I have a quiet belief as I move from place to place and task to task that, yes, there is a power, an energy a feeling of comfort that makes me want the person next to me to feel. I hope you all can feel the stability I feel knowing He is there in both times of good and bad.

PRAYER: May we all have that feeling of God’s power, energy and comfort. Amen.

Doug Reynics