God Sightings

At the end of May as the sun was rising, I found my heart brimming over with joy at the "light show" from the Lord in the western portion of the sky.  Many rain clouds were hanging in the sky with bright blue below and as I looked heavenward ...I thought I saw..could it be? the hint of a rainbow... and as I stood in my garden awestruck...this, the sign of the first covenant mentioned in the bible, began to brighten it's hue and form until I found myself overcome with tears streaming down my face.

Sheer joy poured over and in me as our Creator God displayed His power and beauty, one more time, for this ordinary woman.  As I put words to the page Selah is singing .."Sweet Jesus, my Jesus, my savior..you are my faithful friend.." ..." faithful, faithful to the end".  Oh yes, our God has shown Himself faithful every moment of my life.

I remember that little girl of long ago hungering for acceptance....wanting "to be somebody"....fueled in pursuits by fear.  I also remember the people that walked through her life and while in it eased those hungers and fears for awhile (defined as a short period of time). However, humans could not soothe or fill up the place inside, made only for God, Himself. 

 Day in and day out, week after week, month after month, and year after year...as that little girl grew; first into preteen, then teen, young adult, middle age and now a senior adult, God was watching.  He was watching and waiting.  Waiting first for me to say "yes, Lord, I surrender all".  That took a while.  It wasn't until my early forties, with my life in disarray that I found myself ready to let God be God over ALL my life.  Suffice to say that it wasn't an instant transformation.  For though God's Word assures me the following -
       "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."  2Cr 5:17;
Our sanctification is a continuing process toward holiness.
",,and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. ;  And do not be conformed  to this  world,  but be transformed  by the renewing  of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.; .. and But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. "
Eph 4:24, Rom 12:2, 2Cr 3:18
I treasure those special "God Sightings" the Lord blesses me with....the rainbow in the western sky that early morning is a memory that encourages me to keep "looking forward" and not behind!
Where are you looking today?  Waiting to read your story.
Blessings,
Judy