I lie in bed thinking about the day ahead. There's a lot of anxiety. What will happen during this conversation? If I do that, what will the consequences be? I feel the anxiety rise from my stomach. I call out to God-be my Emmanuel. He reminds me that I am anxious and worried about the future because I am imagining a future in which He is not there.

I get up to go exercise. In the car I listen to songs that praise or remind me of God. I don't sing in front of people, but in the car I will. When I sing in public, it becomes a distraction. But what Father doesn't like to listen to His child sing to Him?

As I exercise, I am amazed that in this body, God resides. I don't understand how God could find glory for Himself in a body that is so unworthy. But, he is the God who dwells within us.

I go home and get changed. As I head to work, I look up at the early morning deep, blue sky. The contrast between the sky and the dark green leaves of the trees never fails to astound me. I praise God for His wonderful creativity.

I begin my day at the office with a word of prayer-an opportunity to come before God with my day. It makes sense. I'm excited to get e-mails from friends and return phone calls from close acquaintances. Why should I not also desire to speak with God, my Friend?

I begin working. This is probably the most distracting time for the day. I can become so enmeshed in thinking about things, relying on my own strength and ability, and getting lost in details. I must remind myself throughout the day, I am working for my Master.

Throughout the day, I have opportunities to study His Word. I need to understand it for my own life because it's my ministry to help others understand if for theirs. If its not something that I can apply to my own life, how can I ever expect to apply it to the lives of others? I need God to be my Teacher.

I head home at the end of my work day and am greeted by shouts from my kids. They remind me of the remarkable fact that God has a family and I have been adopted by Him into it.

As I eat supper, knowing that there are many people throughout the world that would crave a tenth of the portion of food that I am eating, I am reminded that God is my Jehovah-Jireh-He provides all good things for me and often times in so much more abundance than I deserve.

I end the day in prayer. The King enjoys hearing reports from His Kingdom and so I recall the day before Him-asking for forgiveness for times I have helped in the rebellion against Him-thanking Him for times when I have been able to serve Him.

I go to sleep knowing that I can rest in peace-He is my Yahweh-Shalom.

This is not my typical day. In fact, this day is an amalgamation of many different days. I pray that I could have a day where I am able to faithfully do half these things. But it shows that God impacts every aspect of our life.

As you go throughout your day, in what ways are you reminded of who God is?

2 comment(s) for “Knowing God”

• 1. Anonymous on Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 10:09 PM

  When I face a difficult or unpleasant situation, I often think of the verse in Psalms 139 that says that, "All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." That verse gives me such confidence and comfort. I know that my heavenly Father, who loves me infinitely, knew from eternity past I that I would face this day/situation. No event takes him by surprise. I can rest in the knowledge that He is in control of my life and all situations and so I don't need to be.

• 2. Anonymous on Friday, October 19, 2007 at 9:52 PM

  "Be still and know that I am God" is perhaps the most challenging verse in the Bible. It is hard to be still, and it is harder still to be still and have intimate knowledge of God in the midst of all life's struggles. (Even though this is in the imperative form and not and option.) Another way of translating it is to say (paraphrasing) You are commanded to cease striving and have intimidate knowledge of me because I am God. This is a really tall order.