God sightings

What's a "God sighting?"

In Matthew 6:26-30, Jesus uses the world around him to help point out the way that God is always working. He does it in the context of not worrying and he draws his listeners attention to little, oftentimes unnoticed thing around him.

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? ²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 

And not only can we see what God has done, but we can learn about who God is. Paul in the first chapter of his letter to the Romans reminds us that:

²⁰ ...since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, ...

Creation itself teaches us some things about God.

So a "God sighting" is when you notice some way that God was or is at work in your life or in the world around you, or you notice something that reminds you of God - his holiness or his power or his creativity.

Maybe it's when you're particularly lonely and a friend stops by or gives you a call. Or when you see a particularly beautiful sunset, or the view from a mountaintop. Or when you avoid something that could have gone drastically wrong, and you think, "Whew,... that was a close one!"

There's evidence of God at work all around us. He's not hiding, we just need to take the time to look.

So where have you spotted God recently?