STOP

Exodus 33:18 Then Moses said, "Now show me Your glory."

I'm starting to wonder if the greatest act of Christian rebellion against this crazy busy world is to become a people who are known for stopping their lives...stopping our lives for each other and stopping our lives at the slightest prompt that God may want to show us something beautiful that He has made.

A couple of weeks ago, as I was driving home, I couldn't help but notice the sunset.  It's not uncommon for me to notice the sunset because I am a hack Instagrammer so I'm always looking for a cool picture.  This time it was different though.  The sunset was strikingly vivid.  The clouds were taking on a purple and orangish hue and the sun was a rich mix of yellow and gold.  But even more than the beauty of it was this weird sense I got that God was either frustrated or angry.  I don't know if it was God or not, but as I asked God what it was that I was sensing, I felt like I heard God ask, "are you going to miss it too?".."are you going to be counted with the millions and millions who miss this every day?"  So I pulled my car over on the side of the road and took a picture just to, in my own way, not miss it.

Later that night, during the worship at a bible study I was attending, the worship leader asked us to pray "show us Your glory!".  As I was praying, I think I heard God say with a tinge of sadness, "I already have..".  

And then it began to settle in as to what God might have been trying to tell me.  How many times do we pray that prayer "show us Your glory!" and then immediately let ourselves be led away by distraction of social media or whatever urgent task our daily calendar demands of us for the day.  

If I was Moses, I'm afraid that when that moment came where God passed by to answer my prayer of "show me Your glory", I would have missed it because I was looking at my twitter account or fighting with my phone because I couldn't get coverage there in the cleft of the rock.  

I hope that I can grow to be more like Moses when He says, "If your presence does not got with us, do not send us up from here.." (Exodus 33:15) and wait until God shows up.  It doesn't necessarily mean that I sit at home all day, but it does mean that I would go about my day expecting and looking for God's answer to my prayer.  And whether He answers through a stunning sunset or some other creatively glorious way, that I would drop everything, stop what I'm doing, and take every bit of it in.