Trust in the unseen

        Another beautiful sunrise in the mountains.  God, You are amazing.
       The low lying clouds completely hide the vibrant green carpet of earth and trees and roads that spread out underneath.  You'd never know anything at all was there--yet just under those clouds is teeming, sprawling life.  

  And another hidden view.  The boys playing golf on hole 17 that has a spectacular view off the mountain...but today, the clouds conceal the beauty of verdant valley and foothills below.    

         I couldn't help but think of Paul's words: "For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.  For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal." (2 Cor.4:17-18)
         Focus on the unseen.  Remember the unseen.  Don't allow what you can see to blind you to the fact that far more, infinitely more, is going on behind the scenes.  Oh my, it's so easy to get caught up and preoccupied with what we see, taste, and touch that we miss, ignore, and forget the exponentially more important unseen.
         Here's what Levi Lusko says in  his powerful book, Through the Eyes of a Lion: "This is the war: every moment of every day, we must make the all-important choice of whether we will rely on the naked eye.  Will we trust what we can see is there, or believe what God says is there?  It's a decision we are continually confronted with."
        "Will we trust what we can see is there, or believe what God says is there?"  
         Will we trust that God is in sovereign control of every single thing that happens in this universe...even when disease or death or disaster hits us broadside?  Will we believe His perfect eternal Word...even when culture denigrates and denies it at ever turn?  Will we place our faith in our Almighty Lord and in things unseen...or in what we can see, what others tell us, and what we feel?
         It's a moment by moment choice we have to make, and as Lusko says, it's a battle.  A daily battle for our hearts and minds to trust in God's unseen instead of the seen.
        Yep, that valley, those foothills, those trees and roads were all still there today even though I couldn't see a one of them with my eyes.  They were merely hidden for the moment, and so I trust what I know is true, though unseen.  And I'm thankful that God's Word reveals what is true.  The true Truth.  The unseen Truth.
        We can trust in the unseen, because behind it all is the Almighty Lord of Heaven and Earth who sees all,  knows all, and does all for His greater glory and our ultimate good.        
       Trust in Him.  Trust in His Word.  Trust in the unseen.
       To God be the glory.