Things that are seen…

God wants us to completely have our confidence in Him. He wants us to understand that He is the source of everything. When we cannot fathom His purposes and life feels chaotic and out of order, it is the time when our trust in God reveals itself. It does not take any effort to believe that “God is good all the time” when good things are happening all around us. But when we trust His integrity and believe that He is vigilant and watching over us when life feels chaotic, that our faith and trust are proven. It is when you pray and feel like your prayers are unanswered, and you can still say “God is good” that your faith in God is proven.

Do you trust that He is always in control and no situation is actually chaotic to Him? Do you believe that your redeemer lives and that He orders your steps? We serve an unseen God who operates in an unseen world. “Things that are seen were not made from things which do appear.” Hebrews 11:3. It is because we cannot see that we must become as little children and trust God to work in the unseen world on our behalf.

A baby cannot see that it is for their good that we hold them down and allow a doctor to give them a shot. They do not understand why we would not give them as much candy as their hearts desire, but it is for their good. We also have a limited vision of where we are and where we are going. Let’s become like little children and trust the living God to work out circumstances and conditions in our lives and the lives of our families. Pray and trust that what we see as chaos today is only a piece of a much larger mosaic that God is working on. He is always in control, and “He is always GOOD.”