Day 2 - Eyes and Ears

So, here we are on Day 2...

Yesterday, we left off where I hadn't really heard much and was about to hit the sack.  To be honest, you can't very well have a conversation with someone if you don't put yourself in a position to listen.

But, to be true to my post, I tried to do just that and go ahead with my bedtime read.  Being the first of the new year, I searched my room for the Bible reading plan they gave out 2 weeks ago at my new church in an attempt to start the year on track.  Nevermind the fact that I was putting aside the started effort to try and finish up the Psalms before the close of 2012.  I've been leisurely working on them for a few months now, no agenda, just at my own pace alternating between them and the life of David in 1 & 2 Samuel.

Anywho, I looked at the plan, and of course it started with Genesis - the first book in the Bible.  Ok, this will be easy, only Chapters 1 & 2.  Easy.....here I go verses 1, 2, 3...10.  Wait, what did verse 3 say again?  This will happen a lot when you read the Bible. 

It wasn't that I wasn't necessarily understanding, but seeking to go deeper, and something about that 1st day of creation, something, someone was telling me to go back!

"And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.  God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.  God called the light 'day,' and the darkness he called 'night.' And there was evening, and there was morning - the first day."

Ok, fine.  Interesting, there's something about that first line there.  I wonder what God is trying to say? Hmm...let me read some more and see.  I finished through the end of Chapter 2 and nothing -yet. I knew God was trying to tell me something!

Ok, so what now?  I said, I may as well try and read a few more of the Psalms, I am so close with only 13 chapters more to go.  I started reading chapter 138 - nice. Then 139 verse 10, next 11"If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,' even the darkness will not be light to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you." Whoa! What? Wait! Stop right there! This is it! 

There it was, what God wanted to show me.  Coincidence? No way! I am telling you, there had been no conscious order or methodology to the pace of my reading of those Psalms or even of Samuel.  I mean, what are the odds that my reading one more chapter today inadvertently or 2 less the day before or whatever the number would completely add up to reading these separate portions on the same night?

You see, this is how I know it's from God.  He knew when I would read those and He set it up so that I would read them together.  What do you think He's trying to tell me about the light and the darkness? If you read the entirety of Chapter 139 you can see that he is speaking about knowing the author, the reader, you, me...very intimately and that nothing is hidden from Him, because well, He created the light and the darkness, and you, and me. 

Can you see how even that syncronicity is evident even in the fact that He orchestrated the material for my reading? What about reading about the "first things" created on the "first day", posted on the "first day" of my blog on the "first" day of the year? Ok, I could go on and on...but you get the idea.

God speaks in repetition, pause, and across time....He also speaks in themes.  I will be on the alert for the next few days with my eyes and ears wide open for the light and the darkness! Will you?

Btw, He also answered a small request this morning when I asked him to find me Christian station with sermons from Pastors I often listened to in Boston....after a 10 minute scan of the radio (twice of the AM - nothing) then once on the FM - boom the voice of Ravi Zacharias came over the radio waves!