Supernatural Love By Lisa Burkhardt Worley
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39)
The strangest thing happened to me during one of my quiet time sessions this week. Every morning, rain or shine, I wake up early, hit “start” on the coffee pot, and after my first sip of coffee, I delve into God’s Word. I long to hear what he has to say to me don’t you?
I also use supplemental material for my morning time with God. I receive a couple of devotions through e-mail and occasionally I read a hard-bound devotional book like “Jesus Calling.”
On this unusual morning, I noticed that my Jesus Calling devotional was on the kitchen table already. It usually sits in a pile of other books behind me on the snack bar. “That’s odd,” I thought. I hadn’t read Jesus Calling in a number of days and I knew I had not pulled the book to read the day before. “I guess God wants me to see what it has to say today.”
So I looked at what author Sarah Young interpreted for August 2nd and there was no “aha moment.” I wasn’t driven to change my path and I laid the book down, more perplexed than ever. That’s when I heard, “Read August 1st.” I realized I had looked at the wrong day.
When I began to read the message on August 1st, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt God was giving me a love letter that morning. It said: Nothing can separate you from my love. Let this divine assurance trickle through your mind and into your heart and soul. Whenever you start to feel fearful or anxious, repeat this unconditional promise: ‘Nothing can separate me from Your Love, Jesus.”
God knew that earlier in the week, for a 24 hour stretch, I came to the conclusion He did not love me. While I had already repented of that mindset because I determined I cannot base God’s love on circumstances, the Lord wanted to make sure I would never doubt His love for me again. To do that, he reached down from his supernatural world and placed a book on my table to read about his love for me. That’s how concerned He was. Through this close encounter with the supernatural, I could never doubt it was from Him. I couldn’t explain why the book was on my table. He placed it there.
Has God ever shown his love to you through inexplicable means? I love it when He gives us something that can only be from Him. Occasionally the supernatural world intersects with the natural, letting us know God is close by. I am thankful for those moments and I find myself saying, “Do it again God. Do it again!”