Learning to Live Aware of God’s Nearness
Introduction Most of us have been in church a long time. We've heard the big stories—Moses parting the sea, Jesus feeding the five thousand, Paul's dramatic conversion on the Damascus road. These are wonderful accounts of God's power and purpose. But I wonder if we've sometimes missed something equally important: God's presence in the ordinary moments of our everyday lives. Brother Lawrence understood this. He was a monk in a French monastery in the 1600s who spent much of his time washing dishes in the kitchen. But instead of seeing that work as separate from his faith, he discovered that washing a plate with awareness of God's presence was just as holy as kneeling in prayer. He called it "practicing the presence of God." Over the next twelve weeks, we're going to explore what that means for us. Not through complicated theology or detailed Bible analysis, but by looking at what Scripture actually says about God being close—right here, right now...