Earnestly Seeking or Circumstantially Seeking?

  So there's been kind of a two-fold experience already with this Psalm 63 study.  The second experience is still happening and molding me, but the first part is pretty important as well.  To begin with, all I was doing (and sometimes I still do this) was wishing that I was doing something else.  I was wishing I could do more God-stuff.  I was wishing that I wasn't stuck with this internship so I could go do "God stuff" at a camp or on a missions trip.  And on my way back from work the other day, I was feeling the same way.  I kept running the first part of Psalm 63:1 over and over in my head and was feeling like I was too inadequate to do something important for God like working with kids or going to Africa.  By the way, two of my friends from church did each of those things so that's why they were kind of sticking out in my mind.  I kept saying "Okay God, I'm trying to earnestly seek you, but how am I supposed to really seek you if you don't give me something to do?"  And then, a small voice whispered, almost audibly, 


"Yes, but are you seeking me where you are now?"

  I almost ran off the road I was so shocked.  I had been "earnestly seeking" God in all the wrong places.  How do I know that I won't be a help to a farmer here in south Georgia just like Josh was in Africa or Tracy is in New Mexico?  God knows the plans He has for me and I was being ignorant and trying to tell Him what to do with me.  God is everywhere. 


He's in the rising and setting of the sun each and every day.


He's in the peaceful smile of a wise elderly man or woman.


He's in children's laughter.


He's even in the tears of sorrow, and yes He's in the shouts of joy.


He's in the deep jungles of faraway lands with the missionary.


He's with the mom who stays home to care for her sick children.


He's with the young man who goes to visit his grandpa and the other elderly in the nursing home.


God is in all things, and since He's so great, that means nothing is ever small or insignificant.  Every earthly kingdom needs people doing all sorts of jobs to make the kingdom keep running.  If the trash doesn't get taken care of, it could lead to diseases and not to mention the nasty smell that could lead to unhappy members of the kingdom.  It's the same way with God's family.  We all have something we can do for God to glorify Him, even if we don't think it's glorifying.  Why do we rate the jobs we do anyways?  It doesn't matter what people here on earth say because the garbage man who picks up your trash every day, the janitor at your work place, the CEO of a multi-millionaire-dollar company, and the kings/queens/presidents of this world will all hear the same statement from the throne of glory when they make it to heaven if they are believers, "Well done my good and faithful servant.  Welcome home."


  So now, I am earnestly seeking God wherever I am.  Whether it's at work or this crappy house I'm staying in, or driving down the road, or in stuffing envelopes, or making copies.  My God can use anything to glorify HIs name, and that is what I am  determined to seek.