Living out God in my life

I have really been seeing God in the little things lately. It's like the holy spirit has awaken inside and has been revealing God in so many ways. It's like the blinders on my eyes have been lifted and I see His glory. I know His glory was always there, I think I was seeing the other side of things, the side where I was waiting for my glory and not His own.

We were off to family camp, and I had expressed my concerns, but then chose to enjoy what it is and not what I thought it was going to be like. At times I had a moment of sadness, but I rejoiced in what I believe is going to happen, at what God is doing even when I can't see with my own eyes. With this mentality, I saw God at Family camp. To see God at family camp is really amazing, because the family is really lost. He was there working and revealing Himself in so many ways.
First of all His beauty was all around, in the sky's and the tree's. I stopped at times in awe of what he had created. Sometimes when there was a huge spider, I had to ask why? but I was quickly reminded even though I do not like the spiders there is a purpose, and they are good. So I had another reminder, even though I may not like things, it is God who understands the purpose of the things we created. We just have to trust, and if we ask, He will show us.

God was with me. I didn't realize how much, until my family members kept giving me compliments of His Glory. They saw the love of God, when I told my husband he had the most amazing eyes, and how much I love him. When we held hands, and stole those little moments. When we loved our kids openly in front of them all. When I spoke only good things about my husband, and encouraged them to do the same. One of my cousins at one point told me that her and her husband wanted to emulate our marriage. Another had said they hoped to have what we have someday. Another asked for advise on how to get what we have, and said she believed I gave her the keys to a happy marriage. Little did she know I was giving her God's advise, not my own.

On the way home from the trip, I saw a little antique shop, in Versallias, Indiana. I had asked Benji if I could stop and look for a gift for a friend. I definitely saw God when my husband said sure, with no complaint. Benji usually will stop for nothing when he wants to get home. I went inside, I have never stepped into a antique shop in my life, I was looking for one friend, and God reminded me of another. There they were the exact things she had said she wanted in someone's house in Missouri. Who thought you would have to find them in Indiana. God knew, and he led me there I believe, with out me even knowing it. To remind this friend, the desires of her heart are not only hers but his. And to remind me that, in all of my freindships to remember a very special one He put in my life. That when you go out of your way to love someone, you are revealing God to that person.

I am not trying to toot my own horn here, I am just trying to remember that living for God is the most rewarding thing I could ever do. That He shines through me, and on to others just as His word say so. That we don't have to get up on a pulpit and tell people what they need to do, we just have to live it out, and show them the living, loving, merciful, giving, accepting, wonderful, glorious, powerful, God He is.