It was a week. And like most other weeks in this season of my life, it was a doozy. But this week was a double doozy for a myriad of reasons. Let’s just say that by Friday at 4pm, I felt like I had been hit by a mack truck and couldn’t seem to pull myself up off the pavement.

So I did what any reasonable American mom would do – I phoned a friend. My best friend, to be more precise…my husband. Actually, I texted him these words:

“Don’t have it in me to cook. Can we order pizza tonight?”

I wish that I had a tally of every time that exact text has been sent through space from one phone to another and I’m sure the pizza companies do too for their marketing research!

He replied, “Of course,” but before I could put in a pizza order, I heard a knock at our front door. On our front porch sat a very large box with two frozen deep dish pizzas from Lou Malnatti’s in Chicago. They were sent by my loving father-in-law as an early Christmas gift. In case you haven’t ever tried deep dish Chicago pizza, you are missing out. This is what it looks like, just to make you salivate:

And here is a screenshot of what my husband wrote in response when I let him know what had arrived:

“You want pizza – God says – I already knew that..Here is the best pizza you could ask for.”

The God Who Already Knows

I popped the pizzas in the oven to cook and pulled out my Bible to read Psalm 139:1-6:

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
² You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
    you discern my thoughts from afar.
³ You search out my path and my lying down
    and are acquainted with all my ways.
⁴ Even before a word is on my tongue,
    behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
⁵ You hem me in, behind and before,
    and lay your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
    it is high; I cannot attain it.

No, God does not always give me what I want or ask for, but He always hears my thoughts and knows my requests even before I verbalize them. And the same goes for you.

He is a God who cares about every hair on your head. He hears the times when your prayers aren’t even technically prayers. Maybe all you can muster up is a groan or a sigh in his direction at that moment, but he hears. He knows. And, when we are least expecting it, when we may think that we’re just trying to get through to the moment when we can put our head on our pillow that night, He shows up at our front door and surprises us.

The God Who Hears Us

My encouragement to you this week is this – in your little moments of frustration or happiness or need, know that God cares. He hears. He’s on it. It may not always be as obvious as pizza showing up at your door, but if we are watching and expecting, we will see His fingerprints of activity all around us.

He’s inviting us to see Him in the details of everyday life. So let him know what’s behind that sigh you are already uttering. He knows already and has a plan and purpose to reveal.

Let Him search you.

Let Him know you.

Let Him hear you.

And in the process, you will come to know Him better, too.