Are there moments when you feel especially close to God? Are there moments when He feels distant?

There are mornings when I feel especially close and connected to God. I spend time each morning reading a chapter in the Bible with helpful commentary so I can better understand what I’m reading and apply that to my own life. I have a few devotionals that further broaden my awareness of God speaking to me and in the process of reading His Word I’m learning from God. I’m reading His thoughts to me and they become personal the more I study His words.

My next most important step is praying. Talking with God opens the door to Him to respond and He does. Have you ever felt a nudge from God?

This morning I was worrying again about the war in Ukraine. Seeing in the news the beautiful innocent children, the adults so brave and yet terrified. I was praying and trying to thank God for this new day even though it was colder! Immediately I could envision the earth rotating toward that point where our days are getting warmer in their appointed time and the light turned on for me….a nudge.

God is faithful. He designed the intricacy of the Universe in it’s faithful precise rhythms. This Earth is rotating and revolving just as it was designed to by God.

Sometimes the problems and worries begin to overwhelm me and I can’t understand why God doesn’t intervene when I want Him to. He gently reminds me I see the world through my eyes…He sees eternity.

There was a woman named Hagar. She was an Egyptian slave to Sarai so she had no control over events in her life. Her story is in the first pages of the Bible in Genesis 16…imagine how long ago that was. Long story short she was given by Sarai to Abram to become pregnant so Sarai could build a family that way since she herself was barren.

Hagar ended up pregnant and fleeing out into the wilderness to get away from Sarai. Pregnant and fleeing to the wilderness.

Do you ever feel like that? Like there is a wilderness when your doubts creep in? You know God is there because He has been there faithfully there more times than you can count.

God found her in that wilderness. He spoke words of encouragement to her and reassured her that the child she would bear would even have the name Ishmael and that the Lord had heard her misery. (Genesis 16:1-15.

Verse 13: She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”

Sarai tried to make events happen; Hagar tried to alter the events in her life; I wonder why God doesn’t do what I want Him to do.

You are the God who sees me and knows the trials, the worries, the joys, the highs of communion with You and the lows of feeling alone. I see today, this moment. God sees you and He sees me and He sees every person and He sees eternity. At the end of all things as we know them, God is there and He is the God who sees you.