Abode

Topics without scriptures: Abner

Yesterday I went to the Space Needle, and while I was sitting inside at a table, sipping my hot chocolate, I noticed a janitor moving between the visitors like a ghost. No one looked at him, and he kept his eyes down as he went about his job of sweep up trash that the thoughtless crowd left on the ground, probably without even realizing that they were leaving it for him. What amazed me, was how everyone did such a good job at ignoring him that even though they were smashed in that room and were within inches of his person, they acted as if he wasn't even there.

There are times in all of our lives when we feel like this, that the rest of the world is so close to us but at the same time has chosen to make us invisible. Whether it is sitting in a crowed cafeteria, walking down the street or all alone in your apartment with the noises of the city and other living people only one wall away, it is so easy to feel like you must not really exist because if you did then all these other people would notice you.

There were only two scriptures for this topic, and the scripture that I want to focus on is 2 Kings 19:27

27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

God knows where we are, where our feet fall. When the rest of the world might not know or care, he knows and cares about where we are. All that negative depressing stuff I just wrote above, gets cancelled out with the happy and comforting news that God always knows where we are and we are NEVER invisible to him.