God Sighting | August, 2007

While interning at my local church’s youth group, I was delegated to preach a sermon relating to ‘Building the foundation of one’s life on the Rock versus the Sand.’ The night before I was to deliver the sermon, I stayed up late doing some small edits and practicing delivery—needless to say, I was pretty tired by the time I went to bed. At the crack of dawn the next morning, I was driving to the church campus and still felt pretty tired. “Starbucks would definitely be great right about now,” I thought to myself. The only problem was that I didn’t have time to stop by Starbucks, and in my year and a half internship stint, no one had ever brought me a Starbucks drink on a Sunday morning—more likely than not, I knew I would not get a Starbucks drink today. Then I remembered, “Hey, isn’t God able to do anything (according to His will)?” So I prayed, “Father, I’m really tired. I know this seems really impossible, but I’m going to ask anyway because You can do anything. Can I have a Starbuck’s drink to keep me a little more energized and awake in delivering this sermon?” And with that, I continued off the freeway exit, drove down the long, morning tinted oak-lined road and arrived at my church’s parking lot. About 20 minutes later, I was doing some prep work when I received a call from a high school student from our youth group with a peculiar announcement, “Hey Nate! I’m riding my bike to church today and I’m stopping by Starbucks, whaddya want???” Needless to say, I was blown away by God’s attention to even seemingly insignificant details, like a Starbuck’s drink. I didn’t realize that the God of the universe would bother Himself with those details; how much more would he be concerned about the bigger things?