Over the last couple of months, I’ve had the privilege of becoming a student of my husband, Nelson. It’s become so easy for me to tell when something is on his mind, or if he’s displeased about something.

It’s the strangest thing, I can just walk into a room he is in and at a glance, I can piece together his facade and the energy in the room and immediately know that something might be amiss or otherwise. I don’t need him to do or say much, I can just sense that he may be excited or displeased about something and more often than not, I’m right.

I started to challenge and ask myself if it’s this easy for me to sense Gods heart, to just know that Abba is bearing a burden and wants to share with me, or sense His displeasure at something, whether in my life or in the world.

I believe that I have come to just sense Nelsons mood at a glance because of the time we’ve invested in each other, I know not to do some things and the things to do because time with him has exposed me to his likes and dislikes and so I know exactly how to love him.

It should be same with God, we should be confident enough to sense and feel His heart in the little and grand things. The worst shouldn’t have to happen before God has our attention. We shouldn’t keep Him vying to get us to notice things in our lives He is drawing us to. We can learn Him and how to love Him by spending time with Him.

It then becomes second nature, to discern and sense things, even before it’s fully made known.

May our boast be first about our knowledge of God, before that of any man. May we see and sense Gods heart at a glance.