I Saw God Today

I've occasionally wondered if those strange people I often meet could be God himself.  You know those moments when you pass someone on the side of the street that hold up a sign "Homeless and Hungry," that person broken down on the highway that looks in desperate need of help, that random person that comes up to you and speaks to you out of the blue about everything going on in their life at that moment, or how about those strangers that somehow, someway, speak to you as if they have a message just for you and where you are in your life at that moment - could that be Him just seeing how I will react with what He's shown me so far? 

I had this experience the other day in a Christian bookstore.  While trying to find a book titled "Read Me," a stranger said "Here, I recommend this one."  And while I wasn't in the mood to be interrupted, oh the irony, I entertained him.  There was something in his eyes.  And as he spoke to me, through this body of a 60-something blue collar worker after a hard day's work, he told me of God's love for me, how God has a great future for me, how God forgives me of gratifying my flesh, that God can fill me, that if I seek Him fully, He will fill me, and that I should not limit the Unlimited.  As I stared in those old blue eyes, I did for a moment wonder if I was staring into the eyes of the Lord.  How did this stranger know my struggles?  How did he tell me things as if He has seen my life recently?  As tears filled my eyes and we shared a hug and said goodbye, and I couldn't help but say to myself, "I saw God today."

Now, as I reflect on it, I did see God.  No, that stranger probably wasn't God, but as Christians, we are the hands and feet of the Lord.  The Lord should so fill us, that when strangers meet us, they say "I saw God today."  We should be vessels for the Lord to work through us to send His message to others.  We should desire to be so filled of the Lord that the fullness overflows wherever we go and others can't help but take notice.  I challenge myself and you, let's live so others see God today.