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Top 8 Bible Verses-Where Can We Find God

Top 8 Bible Verses-Where Can We Find God ?

PLUS an Everyday Story-Finding God in the Grocery Store…

“Chocolate cookies!”

Top 8 Bible Verses-Where Can We Find God

“No! Chocolate chip cookies!”

Two young girls…

Practically running down the grocery aisle…

In search of the perfect cookies…

“Good for them!” I silently grump…

“I’m glad somebody is having fun in the grocery store!”

Are they 12-years-old? 13?

No matter…

They are having a great time as they laugh about which box of cookies to buy…

Me?

I walk through the cookie aisle as fast as possible…

My focus on the “possible” …

To leave as many cookies on the shelves as possible…

And to get out of the grocery store as quickly as possible…

I barely notice my fellow shoppers…

Like most of them…

I stare into some indeterminant middle-space.

A space where I make no eye contact…

A space where I send the clear message…

“I don’t want to be here.”

I am here in body only.

My mind, my heart, my thoughts are elsewhere.

As I leave the store…

I see the two girls sitting on a bench…

Eating their chocolate chip cookies…

And laughing!

Laughing!

Laughing!

Enjoying the moment…

And the place…

Enjoying where they find themselves.

I, on the other hand, ignore both the time and place I find myself.

And so I almost miss hearing God…

God who is here in this moment…

God who fills the grocery aisle with laughter and Joy …

And invites me to join Him in that joy.

Teaching me that…

Since my physical body can only be in one place at a time…

When I ignore that place and time…

I ignore the only place I can meet God.

God who promises He will be with us everywhere…

Always…

In times and places of joy and sadness…

Boredom and excitement…

Danger and safety…

Fear and assurance…

Check out these Top 8 Bible Verses-Where Can We Find God ?

Romans 8:38-39 

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm 139:7-10 

Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

Joshua 1:9 

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Isaiah 41:10 

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Deuteronomy 31:6 

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Hebrews 13:5 

… “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Zephaniah 3:17 

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Psalm 23:4 

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Top 8 Bible Verses-Where Can We Find God ?

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