Training

Noticing God with family.  Obviously God.  Wow! 

 

I’m in training.  Physical training, always.  Skills training, never ends.  Mind training, yes.  Biblical training, that too.  But I’m in a new kind of training for me.  It’s a notice-God training.  And here’s why:

“My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” John 5:17

If he is always at work, in my life, I don’t want to miss it.  So my eyes are being trained to see it.  My ears are being tuned to hear it.  My soul is being turned to notice God’s work.  I’m learning to attend to Him.

I remember a Christmas morning when I opened a card stuffed with 2 $100 bills.  What a delightful surprise and kind gift, I thought.  And then my eyes and ears sought the next gift and the next giver.  I didn’t keep the 200 dollars in mind.  And then the 200 dollars was gone.  Forever.  Swept up in someone else’s stash?  Carried out with the wrapping?  Who knows.  I didn’t pay attention to the gift.  I didn’t care enough.  How reckless!

I am caring more about God’s work and gifts in my life.  Especially since no one else is particularly adding to it, shaping it, correcting it, gifting it.  My family does this as our days intersect, but “my Father is always at his work.”   Think about that.  Always.  It’s time to take notice.

Now, I recount the expressible and inexpressible occurrences, solutions, interventions, attitudes, ideas, helps, comforts that fall in my lap every day.  I notice them.  I praise God for them.  I say, that is God right there.  There He is.

I’m in notice-God training.  I see Him and hear Him and am mindful of Him just a little bit better now.  I’m in training.