“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have
entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who
love Him.” —1 Corinthians 2:9
On Groundhog Day I was traveling
from Somerset to Johnstown early in the morning. The skies were blue, and the
sun shone brightly. Miraculously, Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow
meaning spring is just around the corner. I wondered how anyone could not see
their shadow on such a beautiful, blue sky, sun shiny day. I soon discovered
how.
As I descended toward the city of
Johnstown with the Conemaugh River gap before me, I saw the most awesome,
terrible, and incredible cloud of fog before me. The entire city of Johnstown
was completely socked in with a dark dense fog. As I slowed to turn across
traffic onto my street, it was nearly impossible to see oncoming traffic even
with their headlights on. No shadow here; nothing but darkness.
At staff meeting, I related my
incredible experience of beautiful sun and blue skies for my hour long trip and
then the dark fog for the last two minutes. Asking around the table, no one
else saw blue skies. No one was aware that just above the darkness was a bright
sun already burning away the dreary fog.
Difficult days of our lives often
act like the dense fog trying to block the bright future God has prepared for
those who love Him. We lose a loved one, get a bad report from the doctor, have
a confrontation at work, or watch someone close to us make one bad choice after
another. It seems like there is not only no bright future ahead but no future
at all. It is nearly impossible to convince someone plagued with bad news after
bad news that God is still on the throne and the blue skies will soon be coming
their way.
Most of us subscribe to the adage,
“Seeing is believing.” When I talked with our staff this past Tuesday, most of
them would not have believed the sun was shining and the skies were bright
blue. Why? Because all they could see with their human eyes was darkness and
fog. They might have agreed with me that somewhere else the sun was shining but
not on them. I had just driven down the hill and had seen the sun for myself.
It was really shining and would soon overpower the fog.
Think about the promises of God
and His answers to your prayers. God knows what He has in store for each of us.
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the
heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him” (1
Corinthians 2:9). I know a man who asked God to deliver him from the drug culture
he felt trapped in. Within minutes as he walked home, a policeman arrested him
for a drug violation. At that moment his future looked bleak, but he was
transferred to drug rehab, got clean, and the sun (and God’s Son) began to
shine in his life.
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