We’ve all heard that the early bird gets the worm, but have you ever wondered how?

We know why he got it: hunger.

We know when he got it: early.

But how did he get it so early? He was rested. He planned the night before and prepared. He didn’t oversleep.

Today, I’m up early (4:30a) because I’ve got a worm to catch. I went to bed earlier than normal last night. I’m ready because I’m rested. It’s hard to catch worms when you’re tired.

It’s so easy to lose God’s voice in the busyness of our days. I don’t mean that we never hear Him through prayer or the Bible, just that it can be easy to drown out His voice with all the things that compete for our attention. The mundane tends to muddy the connection.

It’s good to find places that fine-tune the frequency, and usually those places are outside. Romans 1:20 explains why:

For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. (Romans‬ ‭1:20‬ ‭NLT‬‬, emphasis mine)

It’s hard to look at waves crashing on an ocean shore or mountains of red and brown touching the sky and not hear God speaking. It isn’t so much that He audibly screams to us in these places as it is that everything else fades away and His voice seems so much louder than normal.

The majestic touches the mundane, and what had seemed like a whisper sounds like a shout.

“I am your strong tower,” the voice booms. “Nothing is too hard for me. I am your fortress, your shield, your refuge, and the power you see so clearly in the majestic has been and will continue to sustain you in the mundane.”

Wherever you may be today, friend, allow the majestic to touch the mundane, and hear Him again speaking to your soul above the fray.

“I am here.”

“I am strong.”

“I am God.”

Yesterday I left one time zone, flew back three time zones, and then drove forward into another. It was a mammoth 15-hour day from the time we got up until we arrived, and it took us through 4 states.

Our bodies weren’t happy about it. Apparently, time travel is possible, but not without some price to pay.

Even though it was only 9p here, it was 11p where our bodies usually are. This morning, my body was waking up on East Coast time and my mind was screaming at it about how I still had a few more hours to sleep. It’s like living in two places and two times at once.

For he raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus. ‭‭(Ephesians‬ ‭2:6‬ ‭NLT‬‬, emphasis mine)

As followers of Jesus, we feel that tension, don’t we? We’re seated with Him in heavenly places, but still down here paying power bills and dealing with the stuff of this world.

It can be exhausting, yes? But just like fatigue is a small price to pay for the adventure our family is having this week, figuring out how to live here while being seated there is worth it when we remember that we’re living. We were dead, y’all, and now we’re not. So while we live, let’s really live! Let’s bring the glory of heaven into this time and this place until the whole earth is full of His glory.

From there to here. On earth as it is in Heaven. All of that starts when we recognize that every day is another opportunity for us to travel through time.