Where did you see God today?

One knight's tale (sorry, this is a little long):

Last week, I spent some time in Nashville, TN with 27 high school students and 6 other leaders.  Each day was spent doing different jobs, but by far, the experiences that impacted me the most were in discussions with the local flood victims (remember, the "big" flood was in the spring of 2010, while another smaller one happened this past spring).  There are some people who are still not in their homes, 1 1/2 years later.  We're talking complete devastation, with houses literally under water.

Each day, we wrapped up with a small group time, and the question that started it off was "Where did you see God today?"  Almost EVERY reply to this question for the week was in the form of a person/people.  "I saw God when so and so helped with such and such.  Etc.  This reminded me daily that we are supposed to be God to others.  We need to demonstrate His unconditional love.  The world is watching.

But probably the most spine-tingling time I saw God (I did actually get chills) was on our trip downtown for our first work day.  On the way out, we would have quiet time.  Time for devotionals, journaling, prayer, etc.  On the first day, after thinking about how a flood would impact lives, I decided to read the assigned Psalm.  Covenant Life Church is doing "A Summer in the Psalms" and has an assigned Psalm for every day.  This day "just happened" to be Psalm 29. 

My Bible has a theme listed: "God reveals great power in nature.  We can trust God to give us both the peace and the strength to weather the storms of life."  Seriously God?  A message for my first day of helping flood victims.  Wow.  The passage has many references to God being in control during storms, etc.  But then it goes on and says,
          "the voice of the Lord splits the mighty cedars; the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon.  He makes Lebanon's mountains skip like a calf....." (v. 4-5)

And there is the amazing tingling connection - we actually stayed just outside of Nashville......in a town called.......Lebanon!  And of course it is near the mountains.  And of course, the state park sign we passed within minutes of me reading this text, read "Cedars of Lebanon State Park".

Psalm 29 ends, "The Lord rules over the floodwaters.  The Lord reigns as king forever.  The Lord gives his people strength.  The Lord blesses them with peace." (v. 10-11).

HE SURE DOES!