(no this is not about Transformers…)
I love the way this reads in the Message Bible:
So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There’s far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can’t see now will last forever.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (Message)
No matter how bad things look, we have the hope as children of God that our future rests in Him and He has a plan. He has a “lavish celebration” planned for us. He sees what we need, right when we need it.
I know in my life I have questioned a lot of times what I “see” going on, and that usually is what gets me into trouble or discourages me. But, it is at the point of what is working in the “unseen” and the plan that is unfolding that we don’t know about yet, where hope springs forth.
So, if you feel like your world is crumbling or nothing is going right, be encouraged and know that as a Child of God you have access to the One who holds all things in His hands and knows every detail. Trust. Hope. Expect. Things might not turn around in one minute, but you can rest assured there is action and motion going on in the “unseen” that is to your benefit. And as the scripture mentions above, “There’s far more here than meets the eye.”
