How do you see God more?

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How do you see God more? Years ago, I was dating this girl for multiple years who then left me for another guy. How do you see God in that? Now, at the time I was a newer Christian, so I just desperately prayed, "God, bring her back or take this heartbreak out of me." And I heard these two words so clearly, not out loud, but anytime I prayed it, and it was simply this, "Be patient." But be patient for what? For her to come back? For everything to be fixed? So, I had this idea. I took these two words and made it my phone home screen. So, every time I pulled out my phone, I saw the reminder to be patient. A week later, I was feeling really depressed and just struggling to cope with everything that was happening. And I got a text message from a friend telling me how I was handling the situation was encouraging him in his walk with God. Now, I thought I had sucked at it, but I saw God in that moment cuz it was the perfect time. Now, I didn't want to forget that moment, so what I did was I took it and I forwarded it to my email, creating a new folder called God folder, saving that moment. Now, when you look at the word time in the Bible, there's actually two different meanings. The first word is chronos, the chronological order of time, the one we're familiar with. But then there is kairos, which is a God-ordained moment in time. We sometimes call it coincidence or a God wink or a God moment. So, after I saved that text in my God moment folder, nothing happened until a few days later. I was with my friends playing ultimate frisbee, and there is this incredible sunset. Do you ever just see something so amazing and be like, "That is really special"? Completely unrelated to this girlfriend breaking up with me, but it felt like another God wink. So, I took a picture of it and sent it to this God moment folder. Well, what's crazy is every few days I would have more and more of these moments pop up. And whenever I saw it, I would either take a picture of it, screenshot it, and send it to this folder. What started as one or two a week turned into one to three a day. Years later, my pastor would say it like this, and it made so much sense. Any moment in time, a chronos moment, can be turned into a kairos moment, a God moment, if we're willing to see God in every moment. So, anytime I took a screenshot and sent it to that folder, I'm like, "I think that's God." And he started showing up everywhere. Well, what do you do when you have a horrible moment pop up? How do you still see God in those moments? The Bible has something for that. It says, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." God works in all things. So, here's what I did. I started to take pictures and screenshots of those bad moments, too, and send it to the same folder, like the text confirming that girlfriend was never coming back. And I sent it to that folder because the Bible talked about how God worked all things together, meaning at some point that bad moment that I sent into the God folder, where I was saying, "God, do something with this." That one day he would, and I would have evidence from the bad turning to good. And it did. I now have a wife and awesome family. Now, everything's not perfect, but I still capture God moments. I save all those God moments now in a Google folder that automatically updates to this. This is the day my father-in-law gave his life to Christ, when my daughter got to meet her childhood hero. So, how do you see God more? Acknowledge God in little moments, the chronos moments, and you'll start realizing they're not ordinary moments. God is in every moment. If we're willing to see him. Praying for you to see God more today. God bless.