Experiencing God
Every season in our lives, we experience a new way of seeing God. It’s like He uses each one of them to reveal something new about Himself, as He is so much bigger than we can ever know.
I have experienced God as a Father who looked after my every need, even things I didn’t know I needed.
Like a good Father, He was there for me, holding my life in His arms.
I have experienced God as a provider. When I didn’t know how or where the means would come from, He provided, usually beyond what I expected.
I have experienced God as a healer, a counsellor, a friend, and a source of peace and joy.
I have witnessed His patience and encouragement.
I have experienced God as a mother who loves unconditionally, and feeling this love has completely changed my life.
Reflecting on the disciples' journey with Jesus, whom they only knew for a while, I consider how each new experience brought them something new about Him. They learned something about His character and had a new revelation of God. Many things they had only heard about, but all of a sudden, they were seeing with their own eyes. They were living, experiencing Him through a journey of joy and tears, sweat and blood. If they had run away from those experiences, they would have missed the biggest miracle that has ever happened.
They wouldn’t have witnessed with their own eyes the revelation of a God who defeated death and brought salvation.
All of us are going through a new season or a season that feels like a long winter, but I’m sure that through this experience, we are all learning something new about God.
We are all gaining a new revelation of His character or maybe a fresh reminder that He hasn’t changed.
I like to think that at the end of each season, I will have a new lesson about who He is. I want to believe that He will reveal something about Him that I didn’t know before, or that I just heard about but never experienced myself.
Don’t run away from the seasons He allows you to go through; embrace them as an experience and an opportunity to have a new revelation of Him.
For you:
I want to encourage you with a little exercise I do at the end of seasons/cycles or sometimes even when I am going through them. I like to point the main object of my prayers and associate it to a new part of God I have just discovered, or simply, how He has revealed himself to me in that season. He might have used that season to bring a new and fresh perspective of Him, but also He might have used that season to remind me of parts of Him I have forgotten and, I need to know again.
