Chase the Setting Sun...

Yesterday morning I was listening to a sermon podcast from Francis Chan as I was driving to work. During his sermon he started talking about a sermon a student of his, from his preaching class, gave recently for that class.

This girl, before giving her sermon, was talking about how nervous she was and how she kept repeating to God over and over, "God please show up, God you have to show up!" As she was repeating this to herself she realized God was telling her, "I am already here, this is MY party and I invited YOU!" I love that!

So many times we wonder, "Is God going to show up?" or "Is God going to be present in this situation?" What we keep forgetting is that God is already there. He has been there from the start and never left. At some point along the way He called us to that situation, not the other way around.

We talk about how we should expect God to show up. I think it is even beyond that. God is already there, we don't have to expect him to show up, we just have to worry about getting ourselves there and God will be waiting to be there with us.

How often do you pray that God just "show up" in a certain situation in life? Do you expect Him to be there?