[Psalms] EverythingSample

Walking in the Light

One of the worst feelings that a human can experience is feeling ignored.

I listened to a podcast from a retired CEO of Ritz-Carlton, where he made this statement: “We train our people so when they’re walking down the hall, if they get within six or seven feet of a customer, they are supposed to say, “Good morning, Sir. Good morning, Ma’am.”

The employees are trained to look at the customers in the eye and acknowledge them as they pass them by in the hall. They understand the psyche of men and women because they understand that the worst feeling is to be ignored. Have you ever been ignored? Sure you have!

Have you been to a party and it seems like everybody else knows each other? Have you walked up to somebody and they have turned the other way? All of us have been in a spot where we felt like we were just blending into the wallpaper instead of being a part of what was going on. Everybody has felt ignored, and being ignored is one of the worst feelings we can experience. 

God is saying to you, “You’ll never be ignored by Me because My eyes are on you and I know right where you are.” 

God’s knowledge of us is intimate knowledge, but His intimacy does two things: It invites us and it also repels us. 

It invites us when we understand how God knows us, and we respond by saying, “Yes. I want to be known by my Creator and God. I need a place to pour out my deepest thoughts; a place for forgiveness of my sins. I need a place to connect.” I am invited to understand that He searches me, and He knows me. He knows when I leave, what I say, and what I do. 

At the same time, if God knows everything, it also repels me because it is a little scary to think that, “If He knows everything, I don’t know how close I want to get; He may start changing things. I want Him to know ‘these’ are the changeable things and ‘these’ are the unchangeable things.”

Everything is on the table before Him. If darkness is as light, then God can see anything. Even the things that I think are in the dark, God can take those and change them. His love invites me to trust Him.