Today brings one of my favorite sections in Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highest. Chambers writes: “My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean: but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.”
It is easy to try and focus on some grand scheme I have worked out in my head, schemes and plans full of me, and to insist that everything play out as I have planned it. God, of course, gets a good chuckle out of that. For what I am called to do is “obey God in the haphazard circumstances” laid in front of me. I am called to not rant about the person at work who frustrates me, but listen a bit longer to hear what they are saying. I am called to listen to those whose culture, upbringing, ideas and views are different than mine. I am called, sometimes, to just sit back and observe, not to step up and deal with. If I do that, those “haphazard circumstances” can “become pinholes through which I see the face of God.” It occurs to me that I can see a lot through those pinholes.
It occurs to me... 