The other day something so simple yet significant happened.

Michael and I made what seemed to be a “spur of the moment” grocery store stop. While there, I was looking for a bag of almonds and a girl was next to us looking for something. She ask, “Are these cashews healthy?” And I responded with, “yeah and yummy!” I knew in my spirit at that moment she had more to say; I just didn’t know exactly what. I knew in my spirit She was subconsciously reaching out so that I could reach out too. But I needed confirmation. I wanted to be led by the Holy Spirit. I wanted to say only what God needed to say through me. As we walked off, the song “He loves us, oh how He loves us” was on my heart and I began to worship in song as we shopped around. Then I prayed in that moment and asked, ”Lord do you want me to connect with her deeper? If so, could you confirm it by letting us bump into each other again?”

It was child-like faith asking God for confirmation. I needed it.

Then we made our way to the grains aisle and there she was and she smiled at me and I smiled back as I walked towards her singing the lyrics to the song that was on my heart. I approached her and said, “God is jealous for you and He loves and sees you.” Then I just hugged her and held her tightly. Her eyes watered up and she began to cry. I knew then that God had orchestrated that very divine moment. With many other words we introduced ourselves, chatted, laughed and ended by praying over her as well as exchanged numbers. It’s was never about the cashews; it was always about the cross and Christ who crossed our paths for God’s glory.

God was truly pursuing her. Later that day she texted me that she had not been hugged in so long and that she had just went back to church that very day after not attending for years. Again, God was truly pursuing her. Isn’t that what He always does? Isn’t He always pursuing us? Isn’t He always setting something up just so that we would feel His presence and see His relentless pursuit? He is not ashamed or embarrassed of running after us, just like the Father did to his prodigal son. He’s so mindful of us and loves us more than we’ll ever be able to comprehend. It just dies t make sense right?! That’s why it takes faith to receive. So why have you been running beloved? Why have you been beating around the bush and not really expressing the deep things on your heart to ABBA? Why have you been afraid to connect to the cross? He won’t reject you like the world has. He wants your heart. Will you give it over to Him?

Maybe you’ve felt what she’s felt before. I know I have. Beating around the bush with what we’re looking for. Not really being comfortable enough to say what’s really happening internally. We’ve all felt that. We’ve all hid behind “the cashew aisle”. But even in our hiding, God finds us and purses us powerfully and compassionately.

Receive His overwhelming, never ending, reckless love today. He sees you and He knows that you are in need of His embrace. Let Him love you.

“God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’”

Acts 17:27-28 NIV

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You are so loved,

-Amy Isom