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What Just Happened?

“They said to one another, ‘Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?’” Luke 24:32

There are many times in our walk with the Lord that God meets us exactly where we are at, in a moment of great crisis, or maybe a moment of great joy. These are often powerful moments that form our view of God and help us trust Him. The natural reaction to encounters like this is often to run and find someone to share that experience with.

There are other moments when God meets us in the midst of our conversations with others. Have you ever experienced a time when an everyday conversation about life turns into a moment when together, you come in contact with the living God? See, often we only think worship happens in the church walls or at least with a church function, but worship, giving of ourselves to the Lord, happens every time we come in contact with Jesus, and respond to Him. That might happen on a jobsite, in an office, or with a family member. These are the moments that leave you saying what the apostles say in the passage, roughly “what just happened?” It’s as if to say, “we were just doing life and Jesus showed up and formed something in us at that moment.”

My encouragement to us today is to worship where we find ourselves with the reasonable expectation that God will show up and leave everyone in the room wondering, “what just happened?”

Prayer Focus: Lord, I have seen You in the past, teach me to see You in the present. Let me come in contact with You in conversations throughout my day. And so, let me be more formed into a worshiper free of fear and able to testify to Your grace.

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