The night sky above our house in the country is amazing. You can actually see the hazy belt of the Milky Way. It hangs overhead like a cosmic ghost. Sometimes during the summer Danell, our girls and I go out and lay on the trampoline in the back yard to just behold the wonder, the magnitude of it all. It is overwhelming. There is something I’ve noticed about our nights on the trampoline. When you look long enough at a dark sky you start to see things that escape the eye of most people down here not looking up. Every few minutes you can spot a satellite blazing a trail high in the atmosphere. You can’t miss them. They are the fastest moving objects in the night sky.
Sometimes I think God is like those satellites. He is up there at work all the time. Much like those satellites that are controlled from down here, He is also down at our level, working all the time. One time Jesus said "My Father is always working, and so am I." God is always working above us, around us even in us. But most of us live our lives looking down rather than up. We fail to take the time to look and see the wonder of what God does. We fail to look up and consider the possibility that He may have something amazing for us to be a part of. What if this week you and I became fully aware of all that God was doing around us? What if we began to notice the people around us that He was at work in? What if we were to lay back on the trampoline of our own existence and say, “God, where do I fit in all of this?” We might be amazed to find God has a part for us to play. This week look up. God is blazing a trail across the night sky above us. We just need to see where He’s going and follow.
