Where is God?

We were asked to journal where we saw God working and where we saw satan working. I find myself people watching more, observing conversations instead of joining in them. Watching people react and counter act.

I see God in the faces of the young and the old a like. I see His joy and hope, His laughter and his tears. I also see the uncertainty of life. the wonder and excitement.
Then there is satan and the lies that he wispers to us to knock us off the path. The tension he causes, or we allow him to cause in relationships.
Satan can do nothing without our ok, without us allowing him to do it. We can sit back and let him or we can take up our weapon and fight him. Its not easy, it wasn't meant to be, but still the choice is up to you.

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
~ GK Chesterton

This wk at work there were a few calls where the customer i was talking to was more encouraging that they couls ever know. I could hear their joy, their smiles through the phone. They were angels brightening my spirit and encouraging my soul. There are people all over the nation who want to be whole, but they do not know how. They need the truth, Gods truth. Love. Not preached at or condemed, just loved.

"God loves everyone, so a Christian should, too. In fact, Jesus said that the most important thing in life is to love God with everything we’ve got and love others the same way. But it’s not always easy to love everyone around us, is it? Sometimes we strongly disagree with other people’s political views, religious beliefs, behaviors, or something else, and it makes it hard to love them when we feel like we’re right and they’re very wrong. But Jesus doesn’t separate loving God and loving others. So maybe the best way for us to show our love for God is actually by loving other people no matter how hard it sometimes is. Maybe it’s the only way. "
~ www.Nooma.com (check it out)

"I love those shoes. Really? The same way I love my wife? What’s up with the word “love”? It doesn’t have much meaning when we use it so loosely. Maybe we don’t really get it. Maybe we don’t understand what real love is. What it involves to really love somebody. What it means to give yourself to someone else. We mistake things like friendship, commitment, or lust for love, but God wired us a certain way to experience all that love was really meant to be. Not to hold us back or to make us miss out on the best that life has to offer. God created love, and wants us to feel it all in the way it’s meant to be felt. "
~ www.Nooma.com (check it out)

I see God everywhere, in the lives of everyone around me. Not just in the lives of believers, if someone does not believe in God it does not mean He can not touch their lives... on the contrary, God can do anything He wants. I have seen Him bless non-belivers over and over. I have seen Him help them, i have seen Him love them. That is what we as believers are to do love them. Love them as we love eachother, as we love God. I heard some one say once, "the way we love others is the way we love God." That can be convicting. That doesn't mean how we treat other christians... how we treat other people. the bible says it is easy to love those who love you, there is no challenge in that. But blessed are those who love those that do not love them back, for that is a much harder task.
Do not put God in a box, who He can love or who He can help. He can do awhat ever He wants, He loves everyone. We are all created in His image. "we need more hands and feet and less mouths" ~ steve pink.

I have seen God in many situations and in the hearts of many people, but I hope above all esle that He, His love can be seen in me.

"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today
Is christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips
Then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.
That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable."
~ DC Talk