Above all the presents...I love His Presence

I woke up early this morning. Really early. Like 3am early, when Josh decided to climb into our bed. I couldn’t get back to sleep, so I got up.

I actually love the wee hours of the morning. It seems to be the only time that all things in the house seem perfectly still. I sat down to have some time with God, and felt His presence immensely, particularly as I recalled a couple of friends in Terre Haute, and how God’s presence is so strong in my relationship with them. I love it when God makes His presence known, whether it be in the midst of our circumstances, or in the midst of our relationship with others…either way, there is nothing like God’s presence.

I sat down to read The Daily Bread, and I love the scripture that the writer used for this day’s devotion. Paul wrote that God is at work among people of all nations “so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:27-28)

I’m not sure which part of that scripture I like the best. Whether it’s the image of God working all around us as if to encourage us to seek Him out, to literally grope to find Him? Or the reassurance that He’s not far from each of us? Or the blessed fact that it is in Him that we LIVE and MOVE and HAVE OUR BEING.

All I know is that I love the way He loves us. I love the way that He desires to be in a real, intimate, relationship with us. I love the fact that He delights in every detail of our lives. And I love that in Him we live, and move, and have our being.

May you celebrate the fact that Christ came to Earth for you.

Happy Christmas Eve.