“Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below!”  Deut.4:39 (New American Standard Bible)

We pray, “Our Father in Heaven…” (Luke 11:2). He is not only in Heaven, though, but also “on the earth below” -  with you and me.

To live here “below” in  joyful communion with Him, is what really speaks to the world making it sometimes say as it said of Israel:  “What great nation is there that has God so near to it, as the Lord our God whenever we call on Him?” (Deut. 4:7).

In other words, a practical, down-to-earth testimony of the God who is here below!

A blind, Danish preacher who by the way once held me in his arms and prayed for me when I was a baby, once came home after a trip to Sweden where he saw another preacher who prayed for the sick. He hoped to get his sight back.  He didn´t, but still got a special blessing.  To his wife he testified, conscious of God´s presence:  “Before leaving for Sweden I had a God in Heaven.  Now I also have Him right here in the sitting room!”

-jn-

25.3.09