Have you ever wondered why, if God says He is always with us and He will never leave or forget us that we pray for His presence?
In the fictional book, The Shack by William Young, there was a quote that God made to the main character, Mack, that got me thinking. “Mack, the reason you face fears and anxiety about the future is that you fail to see that I am there with you.”
When I say the word “future” how far out from the present moment does your mind immediately take you? Two minutes, two days, a week, a month, ten years? Yet, if God is always with us, where and how we sense that he left is when we think about the future? Did we lose or misplace Him?
If we are experiencing God in the moment, what changed when we entered the very next moment that causes us to pray for God to return? He never left and physically we never left as it is our body that transports us through each moment. Therefore, the only thing that left was our minds. Our thoughts left the present moment in order to live in the future or the past.
If given the chance to think about the fact that God is with you today and will be with you every second after that into eternity, you will find an unexplainable peace. You no longer have to look for God. You no longer need to pray for Him to draw closer or for Him to enter the room with you. Your prayers will always be, “Lord, help me see, feel, touch or hear Your presence.”
When I now see into the future, I have to tell myself that if Jesus is with me now and is delivering me through today’s trials, He will be with me in the same way at that future time and place. So, there is no need to worry, as Jesus and I will deal with it when that moment truly comes. This frees me up to stay in the present moment with Him. This took nothing on my part but to stop and think about it. God did the rest.
Psalm 46:10
10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
Just a Thought…
