He Talks With Me

Every morning I step into the shower and begin a conversation with God. I'm not planning my day at this point or even asking for a revelation of what He wants me to do today. Instead, I just talk to Him about whatever comes to mind. Like my pastor, David Daniels, said in a sermon a few weeks ago, when you're praying and your mind starts to wander, go ahead and chase that rabbit! If something's heavy on your mind then talk to God about it, whatever it is.

Have you ever had one of those awkward moments when you're alone with someone and you don't know what to talk about? You start out by asking some simple questions to get the conversation going before you know it you've found something of common interest and you're talking up a storm. That's the kind of conversation I have with God in the mornings. Sometimes it's slow getting started but once the conversation gets going it's hard to stop.

This morning, for some reason, my mind wandered and I began to think of that mind-boggling thought that God has been around forever! I know you've thought of it before too. You can only think about it for a short time before your brain starts hurting. What was God doing before Genesis 1:1? What was the universe like with nothing in it except God? Every question I think of leads to two more questions and soon the questions alone start seeming like an eternal list.

In Ecclesiastes, Solomon wrote that God "has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end." Because God has set eternity in my heart, something within me knows that eternity exists. And if eternity exists then I'm even smaller than I thought I was and God is even bigger than I thought He was.

David must have felt this way when he wrote "When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him?" In relation to the vastness of the universe I am so very small and all I really know is what I can touch and smell and taste and see. Maybe that's what David was thinking when he wrote Psalm 8, "taste and see that the Lord is good". In other words, "Look here! I know that God is real because I can taste Him and I can see Him!”

The scriptures teach that by believing through faith in God and in Jesus Christ as my Lord that I have been reconnected with my creator. I am His child. I have a secure future in Him. I have a relationship with Him. Whether I believe in anything else, I believe in God, and in Jesus, and in His Word. As I talk with God, I know that He's real because I can taste and see and smell and feel Him with my spiritual being.

This is the God I worship. The one true and living God. A personal God who is mindful of me and cares about me. So I'm content about not understanding eternity past because when this life ends I have all of eternity future to sit and talk with God.