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My Honda CRV has “awareness helps.” If I begin drifting into the next lane, the steering wheel slightly shakes and a warning light comes on. If another vehicle pulls up in a lane beside me, a light on the rearview mirror on that side of the vehicle flashes to make me aware “I am not alone!”

Truthfully, most of the time, I don’t need a flashing light to let me know what I already know, but once in a while, I’m clueless about the obvious until I’m reminded of the obvious.

Big chunks of my life are like that in my relationship with Jesus. I’m trudging through a situation and someone will ask a question like, “How did Jesus help you in that?”

Ahhh…searching…searching…”Well, He guided me through it.” In my lame response, it’s as if the rearview mirror has flashed, and now I’m conscious of the constant closeness of my Savior. Sometimes, it’s as if Jesus was an afterthought to the event, like a fill-in for a sudden cancellation.

Strange as it may sound, being a part of a church fellowship has the sneaky potential to insulate me from the awareness of Jesus. At church, we use Jesus-talk and hang around with other Jesus-talkers and do activities that are somewhat Jesus-related…without being aware of the presence of Jesus in our midst. I feel a little “Baptist guilty” saying that, yet I know it’s spot-on. I have this tendency to be so entwined with the world and those around me that I miss the Master. I was talking to my youth group about this last week. We had “talked around Jesus” for quite a while and then, like a campfire in the midst of our circle, we focused on Jesus.

I’m going back to Psalms and drawing close to the intimacy of their words. Some Psalms express the misery of the moment, while others, such as Psalm 27 speak with an assurance:

The Lord is my light and my salvation—
    whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
    of whom shall I be afraid? (Psalm 27:1)

I’m also treasuring how relationships have the extraordinary potential to solidify my foundation. Last week, I met with a long-time friend who is on a journey with cancer, and we talked about the presence of Jesus with him as he walks it. Conversations with fellow believers have taken on new meaning as I am reminded of Jesus’s footsteps staying with me. As Psalm 23 reminds me: I will fear no evil,
    for you are with me…” (Psalm 23:4)

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