Another flip of the calendar

Has it ever occurred to you that there is nothing that happens in a day that is insignificant?

Every moment in our lives has reason and purpose.  The noise of the world will want us to claim insignificance but if you are wiling to stop and spend some time with solitude you will find God is sitting there, waiting for you.  When you sit for a minute, an hour, a day or many days, you find this God who has much on His mind to explain.  At these times, you come to understand what the world called insignificant, was not.  It is only in this conversation can you discover what your life is about and why these otherwise insignificant events have significance.

God sees you as His.  He filled the Bible with no words of insignificance.  In God's view, every word has significance and we can spend a lifetime studying the Bible with the purpose of finding words that are insignificant but God would tell us otherwise.  He formed this world with significance paying attention to the smallest details of His creation.  Every insect, every plant, every molecule has significance.  To think that we can make it through a day with insignificance is to ignore the reality of God's creation.

God intentionally works in mysterious ways as we cannot understand His ways in the detail that they contain.  Man is limited in this ability to understand.  But being limited does not mean that we cannot grasp much of God's ways and His purposes for the events of a day.  God reveals much to us.  Our problem is that we do not stop long enough to get to know God and His ways.

No one has ever known anyone else without spending some time with that person.  Even getting to know oneself takes time for self reflection.  To suggest that one can know God without spending time with God, is to ignore a harsh reality.  God wants our attention but the only way to get it is in solitude with Him.  As long as the world is about us and making its noise, the world will continue to garner our attention and God will remain without our attention.

I read a book about a famous tiger hunter.  This guy hunted tigers in the early 1900s in India when tigers would eat children that were gathering firewood for the night's dinner.  These children were easy pickings for a tiger as they were small children, usually girls who had no ability to fight back.  Once a tiger killed hundreds of people, this tiger hunter would be called to hunt the tiger.

Tigers are better equipped to work their way through a thick jungle than is a man.  A tiger's senses are much more in tune to its surroundings so he sees better, hears better, smells better that a man in the jungle and as a result, the tiger has a distinct advantage over a man.

The tiger hunter writes about trying to hunt when accompanied by another man.  When there is another person in the jungle, the man's senses are dulled by the noise, the smell and the sight of the other man, leaving him much more vulnerable to the tiger (who hunts the man).  The tiger hunter therefore must hunt alone. 

In the same way, we must go it alone when we meet with God.  Solitude is required.

The world provides the same dullness of the senses necessary to find God in the jungle that surrounds us. 

Satan is like the tiger in that the evil of this world hunts us with better tools than we are equipped with. 

The only sure way to find God is to find solitude and sit with God.  The presence of another person will keep attention focused on something other than the most important goal - sitting with God to hear what He has to say.

In these times, the significance of the day finds perspective in what might have appeared to be just another flip of the calendar.  Make no mistake - you are hunted by something very much more intelligent and much more dangerous than a tiger. 

Sit with God and hear what he has to say.  Your life is at risk.