Picture a woman at her kitchen sink at the end of a long, discouraging day. As she washes the dishes, a verse she memorised as a child comes back to her without her looking for it, and something in her steadies that nothing else had reached all week.
Many of us would hesitate to call that an encounter with God. We tend to expect Him in the church service, on the mountaintop or in a dramatic answer to prayer. Scripture keeps showing Him in fields, on roadsides and around tables, on days that began like any other.
A Bush in the Back Pasture
Moses had been keeping his father-in-law Jethro’s sheep for about forty years. Nothing about that morning suggested it would differ from the thousands before it.
“And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed.” (Exodus 3:2, NKJV)
God did not choose a palace or a temple for this meeting. He chose a bush in the middle of a working day, and the long years Moses had spent patiently keeping sheep turned out to be part of his preparation.
Ruth Happened to Come
Ruth’s story does not begin with a vision or a prophetic word. It begins with a hungry widow gleaning leftover grain in someone else’s field so that she and Naomi could eat.
“Then she left, and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.” (Ruth 2:3, NKJV)
The writer almost shrugs: she happened to come. The rest of the book shows that God was directing her steps, through nothing more striking than the field she chose that morning.
Recognised Over Bread
After the crucifixion, two grieving disciples walking home to Emmaus were joined by a stranger. They talked with Him for miles about everything that had happened, and they still did not know who He was.
“Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.” (Luke 24:30-31, NKJV)
Their eyes were opened at the table, as He broke bread, in one of the most ordinary things people do together.
The Mountaintops Still Matter
None of this makes dramatic encounters with God less real. Scripture records plenty of them, from Sinai to the Transfiguration to Paul on the road to Damascus. The point is that ordinary days are not excluded from the places God chooses to meet us. If we treat daily life as a waiting room until the next big spiritual moment, we miss much of what the Bible shows about how He works.
Tomorrow will probably look like most days, with work, traffic, meals and chores. Go into it expecting that God may meet you there. Carry a verse in your mind as you go, and notice when He brings it back to you.
