As I continue to prepare for the upcoming series on spiritual practices, Practice Makes Perfect, I keep running across instances that remind me of God’s constant provision but my oblivion to that provision because of distraction – and possibly even my own disobedience.
Yesterday, I ran across a passage in Isaiah pointing to how God is always seeking a relationship with us. Here is what is recorded in Isaiah 65:1-2:
“I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
I was found by those who did not seek me.
To a nation that did not call on my name,
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
2 All day long I have held out my hands
to an obstinate people,
who walk in ways not good,
pursuing their own imaginations—
The reminder I take from this passage is that God pursues us. He stands “all day long” with hands outstretched waiting for us to notice. But so often we are lost in our own pursuits. We are distracted by our own imaginations. I even fear that humanity has a tendency to take God-given talents and use them to create a false sense of independence.
Today, may we not walk in ways that are not good. May we not pursue our own imaginations to the dismissal of God’s reach toward us.
Today, may we make time and space in our lives to hear God saying, “Here am I, here am I.”
Clay in the Hands 
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