Encounter

How do we encounter God? The question assumes there is a programmatic way or formula that we can follow or adhere to that will assure such an encounter. Certainly, setting time aside each day for study, contemplation, and prayer helps. Is there more to it?

What if we chose to take God out of the box we call quiet time? What if we recognized He was never limited to the brief and fleeting minutes we assigned to Him every day? What if we began to live with the expectation that we could encounter God regularly and frequently throughout the minutes and hours that make up our days? What would happen if we quit compartmentalizing God? What happens when we purposefully seek an encounter with God? Do we have the courage to seek?

Would God show up on our jobs and in the quality of our efforts and our workplace relationships? Would we see God in the faces and places we go each day? What if we spent our days seeking God?

Would we do unto others? Would we find the good? Would we see the opportunity? Would we take the chance? Would we act? Would we love unconditionally? Would we discover the power at work within us?

Would we glow in a shekinah kind of way? Would people know we encountered Him? Could that encounter lead to other meaningful encounters? Could we change our little corner of the world? Could we change the whole world? Would there be a difference?

I want to know.