Smurfs and Promises

Recently I heard about this driving game where you point out different colors of cars on the road, for example the French’s yellow car or the Smurf blue truck.  While my friends were talking about this game I was thinking, “Are there really that many distinct Smurf blue paint jobs out there?” YES there are! Since hearing that story I have seen at least half a dozen Smurf blue vehicles every time I travel! I have seen so many yellow and blue cars that I now play the Pepto pink game just to focus on a new color. Life is like that though isn’t it? We see what we are seeking.

I talk about writing down prayers to the youth at my church a lot. I tell them about the prayers that I have prayed over the last decade and how amazing it is to see God’s answers. While watching for God to answer a prayer is great, I’ve recently been so convicted that I was missing something…

On our mission trip two weeks ago, the homeowner was telling us about God keeping His promise to her. In a dream she saw a carpenter walking around her crumbling house, she cried in her dream and the carpenter said, “I can fix this. Trust me.” When our mission team arrived to give her a new roof, she realized it was God fulfilling His promise to her in her dream.  How often have I focused and meditated on God’s promises fulfilled or seeing his blessings?

This week I commit to opening my eyes and looking for God’s promises fulfilled and His blessings on my life.

Psalm 119:40-42

The Message (MSG)

 ^41-48 Let your love, God, shape my life
      with salvation, exactly as you promised;
   Then I'll be able to stand up to mockery
      because I trusted your Word.
   Don't ever deprive me of truth, not ever—
      your commandments are what I depend on.
   Oh, I'll guard with my life what you've revealed to me,
      guard it now, guard it ever;
   And I'll stride freely through wide open spaces
      as I look for your truth and your wisdom;
   Then I'll tell the world what I find,
      speak out boldly in public, unembarrassed.
   I cherish your commandments—oh, how I love them!—
      relishing every fragment of your counsel.