You take the trip, I’ll light the sky

I don’t know about you, but my life really isn’t all that deliberate. In fact, I find that I often come into my best situations just by stumbling into them. 

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked at my blessings and then asked, “how in the world did I get here?”

I have a full-time job as a writer and communicator. The dirty little secret is that I’m really a college drop-out who banged away at the typewriter for free for decades. And now I’m paid to be creative — with benefits.

I have a great position with The High Calling — one that I didn’t even know existed before I was offered it.

I drive a really great 2004 Infinity, owned by a widow with 20,000 miles on it and paid less for it than a comparable Hyundai. 

I had relationships and friends that have changed my life, people that I never sought out. I just found them. Or they found me.

Looking around, I’m so blessed, and I didn’t do anything to deserve any of it.

But I wonder if faith can be approached that same way. Can I just be a good man, trying to the right things and suddenly find myself smack dab in the middle of his will. Dare I say it, can I get lucky with God?

Or do I have to be intentional — seeking Him out?

This week’s lunar eclipse, as well as reading the accounts about the wise men who traveled to see Jesus following only a star has my eyes gazing upon the heavens. “Are you for real God? What am I supposed to be doing? Do I matter?”

I imagine those wise men asked the same questions — as we all do — but they chose to find the answer, rather than wait for it to just show up. They asked and what they got was an answer wrapped inside a puzzle — just follow the star.  It was almost as if God was saying, “You take the trip, I’ll light the sky.”

Paul describes humans as “seekers of God, feeling their way toward him”. The Psalmist says that God actually “conceals things. But the glory of kings is to search things out.”

I might know about Jesus, just by stumbling in. But to actually know Jesus, I must seek him out.

A.W. Tozer said that “God is never found accidentally.”


That’s why the bolt of lightening doesn’t come often.
That’s why I don’t see signs and wonders on a daily basis.
That’s why I don’t have insight into the great mysteries.

Because I’m not looking.

“And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jer. 29:13).

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