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May 10, 2005
In Oklahoma City
I just arrived in OKC today. I'll be here for two weeks. My job sends me here often for training. I'm hoping that this time away from home will be a time I can dedicate to reading, praying, and reflecting.
All I have to do is step outside to see how little I love people. I'm hesitant to look someone in the eye, so forget about smiling at a stranger. I'm trying to remember how overwhelmingly present God is all the time. It is my own unbelief and sin that hides God's presence from me. Whether I am aware or not, He is there. If I can remember that God is looking through everyone's eyes, maybe I can see God behind the eyes of a stranger. God, whom I know because of Jesus. The stranger no longer looks like a stranger, but starts to look a little like Jesus. I can faintly recognize something I know in that stranger. And if that stranger happens to be cursing me at any moment, God is still there, looking through their eyes, wanting to mold that person's heart. If I abide in the Spirit, hopefully the presence of God can break through and free that person to submit to God who has always been with them.
Pray for me, because I am so far from submitting my whole being to Christ.
Posted by fabijo at May 10, 2005 11:10 PM
Responses
Fab,
I hope that you don't find strangers cursing at you often.
Is this blog mainly for reading, or are you using it to open up a discussion about the heavy topics that you write about?
Mr. Pop
Posted by: FabSr at May 13, 2005 03:26 AM
Hey dad! Thanks for checking it out so fast!
I don't find strangers cursing at me often! :)
It would be great to allow discussions on here. So feel free to do that. I'm still working a little on the look and feel of the site, so you may see it change from time to time. I erased your email address so that a bot won't pick it up.
Posted by: fabijo at May 13, 2005 03:49 AM