Punxsutawney Phil told us at the first of the week that spring is just around the corner! My daffodils around the mailbox, ready to bloom, would certainly bear witness to that..
Hubby, my resident meteorologist, cut them and brought them into the house a few days later.
He knew things are not always as they seem and "storms" were on the way.
A day later, a severe thunderstorm came barreling through battering down many pre-blooming flowers on our street.
Mine, however, were in a small vase in the kitchen put there by Hubby himself.
He has an awareness about many things which slip right past me. One being weather.
Life is often that way and we are caught off guard.
Why? Because our perceptions are limited. Our vision is obstructed when we think that all we can see, is all that there is. We think that way because we don't know the whole story.
Christians are blessed to know the whole story. Even in the midst of the diagnosis we hate to hear, or the hurtful words that have been thrown our way, we can still have hope---hope for the very thing we cannot see. That's what our faith is. Never does it feel more real than when life doesn't make sense.
God did it for Joseph as well as the thief on the cross beside Jesus. All the "not" seen goodness of those situations were made known. (Matthew 10:26)
"We only "see in part." (I Corinthians 13:12, NLT)
God promises enlightenment, total and true throughout eternity. We will see Him.
"Things are not always the way they seem" is truly an understatement for believers. Aren't we glad!
