To be constantly aware of God’s presence in your life describes this ongoing intimate conversation with and awareness of the Lord of the Bible throughout the day.
Many of you, like me, may have discovered this expression in a book titled “The Practice of the Presence of God”.
The book is a collection of letters written in the seventeenth century by Brother Lawrence to a friend of his.
For those of you who don’t know, Brother Lawrence was a chef who lived in the late 1600s and was known for being constantly aware of the Lord’s presence in his life. So people asked him about it, and he taught them.
His teaching was simple: whatever you do, in word or deed, do it as if you were doing it to the Lord Himself and talk to Him about it.
In other words, exactly what a verse like 1 Cor. 10:31 we learn:
“Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
Talk to Him and worship Him while you do what you do.
If you lose focus somewhere in your conversation with Him, don’t feel guilty. Just focus again on the reality that He is there and also lives in you through the Holy Spirit.
Can you imagine how this can radically change your “ordinary life”, in which you do “ordinary things” such as work, eat, chat, visit, cook, garden, and play sports!
Everything starts to change when you really start to focus intentionally and constantly remind yourself of the Living Lord of the Bible, who, as a Father, as Jesus, and as the Holy Spirit, every moment of the day or night, is there and in you!
Do you realize that this is also the secret of discovering that, regardless of what you do or where you are, you are full-time “in service” of this Lord, as a loving Father, and of Jesus, the King of all kings, through the working and power of the Holy Spirit!
You are meant to be His ambassador and His Kingdom’s ambassador here on earth, full-time, every moment of the day.
You are meant to be an example of someone whose life, presence, words, and deeds make everyone who crosses your path or meets you experience something of this Lord in and with you.
Yes, they should literally, if they have met you, experience how they are touched by this Lord’s love, and experience how He Himself speaks to them!
Listen to how Jesus describes it there in John 14:12 to 14:
“Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.”