What A Day!

It is exactly 10:22 pm and I am 1000’s of feet above the earth in a plane on my way to spend 2 days with our oldest daughter who will turn 19 tomorrow. I have had a long day seems kind of funny I drove to Dayton airport to board a plane to fly to Cincinnati airport. At one point after my 20 minute flight I started laughing cause it took me longer to drive to Dayton than my first flight to Cincy which is closer to my house than the Dayton airport so seems as if I have just took a long journey around Southwest Ohio and am now no closer to Tx than I was when I left my house at 3:30 this afternoon…I know God always has a plan so I tried not to rebuke why I got such a strange flight path, hey I figure embracing it is easier than being upset.

Now lets fast-forward to the why I started today’s blog. It is now 10:27 pm and I am about 10 chapters into Pastor Bob’s new book “The Bone Box” and let me say I am clinging to every word waiting to see what will come next – but….I am also doped up on Dramamine so I needed to put the book away and shut my eyes so I fell asleep for about 30 min or so and was awakened by a voice behind me saying, “oh man that is freakin awesome” I opened my eyes and set up looking around wondering what is freakin awesome! Then out of the corner of my eye I see light flashing so I lean up to look out the window….all I could do was stare at what my eyes where seeing.

You see I have flown above the clouds for many years and flown through a lot of storms but this time this was different I was flying over a storm and the lightning show going on outside that airplane window was something like I have never seen. I began thinking “the heavens declare Your majesty” “How majestic and How Marvelous is our God” “There is none like You, NO ONE can compare to You” Then began singing (silently) “Glory in The Highest” and “Jesus Messiah” I stared for what seemed like hours out that window “awe struck” at His goodness.

Then it dawned on me how long it has been since I stood (sat) in the presence of the King and was just in Awe of Him….then I thought wow it took flying from Dayton to Cincy to Tx for me to meet with God in a way I hadn’t in some time.

My friends how long has it been since you stood in complete AWE of Him? I felt something inside me tonight that I can’t wait to feel again, I can’t wait til the next time I am that much in the presence of God. I quickly confessed to my King my deep sorrow for not meeting HIM this way for so long…and thanked Him for getting my attention and reminding me of HIS MAJESTY…I felt God wrap HIS arms around me and tell me He loved me and yeah He proved it by letting me see His wonder so clearly…

Thank you God that You are always patient, always kind and always waiting for us just to simply look for You….He says “if you seek me YOU WILL FIND ME” my challenge for you this week my friends is to look for Jesus – hey most of you reading this blog live in rural Ohio just drive down 732 in Oxford as the sun comes up - You’ll see Him….who knows what my flight home might bring me….til another day….

Ps – yes I have a ps
That same storm that dropped me right into the presence of God – dropped our plane right into the middle of that storm…You know its gonna get rough when the pilot tells the flight attendants to buckle in and then he says “folks its fixing to get rough” all I know I am glad I know Jesus as my Savior…how could I ask for more!