Don't Miss the Miracle!

I am a person who all too often misses out on what is right in front of me because I am looking for the grandiose display that is sure to be coming!  Well, I feel like the Lord has been to saying to me, "Don't miss the miracles that are all around you!"

There are many times that God gives me a promise of something that is to come and I am looking for it and expecting it to look a certain way and often times when I am in tune with Him I realize that He is bringing that promise to fruition in a completely different way!  Many times through the seemingly "little" things around me!  Things that would be easy to miss if I wasn't paying attention!  I wonder how often did I miss it because I was too caught up in looking for the "Big" thing!

This isn't really where I saw this post going, but as I am typing this it hit me, that's how the Jews were with Jesus!  If I would've been there, would I have missed Him like many of them did!  He didn't come the way they expected!  They expected a "King" who would come in a royal fashion not a child born in a stable to a poor family, much less a mother who was pregnant before she was married!  Not a simple carpenter who had followers who were fishermen and tax collectors!  Someone who wandered around the country side and talked about love!  They were expecting someone to ride in on a white horse and save the day!  Someone who would overthrow their enemies and establish an earthly kingdom that gave the Jews the freedoms they longed for!

I think many times I am looking for that writing on the wall or the parting of the sea that I miss His small whisper!  The reflection of Christ in my children's eyes, the beauty of His creation, the seemingly "small" answers to our prayers!  Don't get me wrong I'm not saying God doesn't want to do miracles that completely blow our minds, but He doesn't want us to depend on them!  He wants us to see Him in every single moment of our day!  He wants us to draw close to Him and be intimate with Him so we can hear His whisper in the middle of the chaos of this world!  And, honestly in those moments when we get that, it is huge!  And I believe it actually opens the door to see those "bigger" things happen!

It's like when God told Elijah that He was going to come to Him!  Elijah had to be paying attention or he could've easily missed Him!  God chose to come at that moment in the still small whisper!  Not a great display!

1 Kings 19:11-13

New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.”

Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. ¹² After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. ¹³ When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.

Are you too busy looking for something that you are missing what is already in front of you?  Take today and ask God to show you what's already there!  Ask Him to reveal Himself to you today in the mundane tasks of your day!  Ask Him to make you more alert to hear His whisper in your ear!