It’s been a papal day. I left the house as the first wave of black smoke appeared this morning. I returned home as the white smoke began to unfurl. After fit club I got the new pope’s name as a news alert on my phone. I sat with my coffee and soup at Panera Bread after fit club and read my friend’s blog (she was quite mad at the Catholic Church and she hopes for better days).
On my drive home I just thought, how God must look down on all of us down here running around trying to get it right. The Jewish people go to synagogue and do what they do. The Catholics are electing a new pope. The Protestants are hell-bent on making everyone accept their ways. Each sect does whatever it thinks it should do to make the world a better place, a holier place. Then there are those who insist God doesn’t exist, along with those that think He exists and are running to and fro from churches to Bible studies to groups and books and the Internet in search of Him.
It’s so simple. As simple as me just boiling another egg yesterday. Lay down in your bed at night, close your eyes and just ask God to show himself to you. That’s it. Then go to slept and get up the next day and resume your life. God will take you into His fold and change your life. You don’t have to do a thing. Once you ask, it’s done and He will lead you from there. Maybe it’s to a Bible study. Maybe it’s to a church. Maybe it’s to the Bible or a book where He Himself is going to teach you. The best part is, you don’t have to decide or have a plan or go on an all out search. The best thing about God is He meets us where we are, with no rules or conditions.
Just ask. Simple.
And so, as another day goes by, we humans complicate finding God and He’s standing right behind us, just waiting for us to turn around, and….I have written.
Amen.
Yes why do we make it all so complicated!