A few days ago, after church, I was just arranging a few things when a brother walked up to me and asked, “How are you doing?”. I said, “I’m fine, just a little tired.” He paused, looked at me, and said, “I don’t think it’s physical. I think you’re mentally tired.”
That one line stopped me, not because he asked how I was; people ask that every day. He didn’t accept my surface answer. He looked deeper, and he spoke to what I was really feeling inside.
It wasn’t a big sermon. It wasn’t a grand moment. It was just a man, pausing in a quiet moment, who actually saw me. And something in me just relaxed.
I felt grateful not just for him, but for the God who sent him to me at exactly the right time, with exactly the right words. It may look like a small thing. But when you are tired, small things mean everything.
That is when it hit me, this was not just a conversation. God used that moment to reach me. We all have people in our lives who ask “How are you?” out of habit. But every once in a while, God takes an ordinary moment and turns it into something meaningful. He uses the right person, at the right time, to say exactly what you need to hear.
That is the beauty of God’s love. It doesn’t always come from the sky with a loud voice. Sometimes it comes quietly through a friend, a colleague, or a brother after church.
The Bible says in Jeremiah 31:3: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.”
God’s love is not just powerful, it is personal. It checks on you exactly when you need it. It arrives through a word, a phone call, a hug, a pause in an otherwise ordinary afternoon. So if you are reading this in a season of chaos, in the middle of a failure you’re still trying to name, in the ache of rejection you haven’t fully processed, look around. God may have already sent someone to find you. And if no one has said it to you today, let me say it now: You are loved. Not eventually. Right now.
The Life Glow 
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