Where is God?

Where is “God with you” in your life? Can you identify the God tracks? Places where you’ve seen him show up? When have you experienced the unexplainable? Maybe a better question is . . . have you looked lately?

Just yesterday one of our partners was working on the front door of the church. After a long effort he prayed “God, I don’t know how to fix this door, please help me.” Just then, a young man who was dropping something off for Scott walked by and said “You need an impact hammer, I’ll go home and get it. I’ve done this kind of work many times.” Long, cool story short, God showed up. . . and the door got fixed.

This Christmas God showed up. In a most difficult time in this economy, Crossroads gave more to our Haitian mission and our Food Pantry at Christmas time than ever before! That means you’ve given all 1000 children in Haiti a gift and provided the ability to help fix up their school in Meyer… plus fed 129 families through the Pantry. (Not to mention that 50 gifts for our mentoring program, money for our Jamaican orphanage, lunch for 100 homeless and struggling people, gifts to 30 sexual assault victims and 46 units of blood were given!) This is amazing! God is with us!

God took on the form of a human being when he came to us on that first Christmas. He started what would be his “M-O” for everyone who would look for him. Be encouraged, God is with us! He is showing up for you, too. He wants you to experience His presence with you. So many times we are more aware of our trouble than our answer. We can be so blinded by what isn’t that we can’t see that God is. Think about it, if He can be conceived in a virgin, your situation is a piece of cake! He is with you. Just look.

This Sunday, come to our special Christmas service, Songs of the Season: “My Silent Night”. It will be a live “Nativity Gallery”. We will tell stories of how God is showing up all the time in the lives of people you go to church with. Bring your friends…come see God with us in art, song, dance and spoken word. Let your faith and the faith of those you love come alive!! God is with you! Just look!

Looking for God,
Scott & Clare
Crossroads Church & Ministries