Simple Sunday: Aware

Tim Challies, a Christian author and another blogger that I follow posted this picture with a quote from John Piper a few months ago.

It struck me so I grabbed it to remember later. I want to encourage everyone with this truth, because most of the time we run through life focused on the here and now, the things that affect our direct bubble or sphere of influence, we think about the problems we are facing or the one, two, or three big tasks or issues we have to tackle... and the reality is that there is a whole different world around us that we are so quick to forget about. God is sovereign, there is nothing we can do to surprise Him. There is nothing that will ever happen that will force God to say, "Well, didn't see that coming!"

Sometimes the best thing for us to do is to sit silently in the middle of the noise and listen.
Sometimes we just need to open our eyes to the bigger picture.
Sometimes we need gntly reminded that we are not the center of the universe.

And yet, let us also acknowledge, accept, and rest in the fact that...

"God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of the them."

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Nathan Bryant

is a pastor living in Phoenix, AZ. As a student at Ozark Christian College in Joplin, Missouri he majored in Biblical Leadership, New Testament Studies, and Missiology. Nathan has a combined passion for unity and discipleship in the global church.

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