look around you. the people that give you hugs n make your day, the smiles you see that bring a smile onto your face, friends that help you to keep going on with the week, the beautiful sunsets that is painted into the sky, the A you got on that test you thought you were going to flunk, professors that patiently explain to you the things you're suppose to know,the people who come along your way just when you need them to. how did everything just fall so perfectly in place? is God not present in every single on of those moments?
as of late, it seems like i find myself in situations where i can feel Him and sense His presence so strongly, but yet people all around just seem oblivious to it. i can't help but ask God why? how could they be so ignorant toward Him? how and why would He allow them to go around like He wasn't even there?
after many days of questioning, God finally sat me down and explained it. before i had my "awakening", i was just like all these people that i see now. He has been there from the very beginning, but i too, had ignored Him this whole time until recently.
my next question then was "why does God allow it?". all those time i was just ignoring Him, He could have made me notice Him. He could make anyone notice Him. then i realized. that isn't God. He won't force us to want to have a relationship with Him if we don't want it.
as much as God yearns to have a relationship with us, we need to want it in order for it to work. God loves us so much, and that's why He's willing to wait. He will wait until we realize He's there, and He'll be waiting with arms open wide, waiting for us to run straight into them so that He can love us like the loving Father that He is.
and it doesnt matter how far you've strayed, He's always there, waiting to forgive and to love and be loved.
God is everywhere, whether you acknowledge Him or not. the next time you look at something, think of how you can see God in it. take a moment to acknowledge Him, and thank Him for what has been done. then ask for more, and He will bring it.
