What We Cannot See
Early yesterday morning Ray greeted me with: “Be sure to look outside at the light, the moon is setting in that direction (he pointed west) . . . and it’s starting to get light from the sunrise in the other direction.”
I peeked out the window, ran to get my camera, and hurried into the cold in my bare feet. Sunlight had begun to rise above the hills out back, but not yet enough to obscure the white moon in the early western sky beyond our front yard.
Light streamed across the fog that hung over the river to the south.
You can’t see an inch of the river from our house, but in the early morning, there’s no doubt where the river flows. River fog circles the bottom land across the road in a soft, defining ribbon.
As the morning warms, the fog rises and widens. Ray and I never tire of the wonder of the rising, expanding fog.
These scenes look quiet and peaceful, but we mustn’t mistakenly believe that nothing is happening. These are not simple scenes, not really. They are dynamic ones.
Night fades. Morning comes. Light glows. Mist rises. Trees stand. Grass grows. The river flows.
Our Father is doing extraordinary things, even in quiet scenes when it looks like nothing is happening at all.
Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving;
Sing praises to our God on the lyre,
Who covers the heavens with clouds,
Who provides rain for the earth,
Who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
Psalm 147:7-8
Our Father, who commands these events day after day, loves your children. We can trust Him. Sometimes we look at our children or at other people we love, and things look mighty quiet. It doesn’t appear that any of the things we long to happen in their lives are happening. Remember. God cares about those things more than we do and He can see what we cannot see.
And He was saying,
“The kingdom of God is like a man
who casts seed upon the soil;
and he goes to bed at night
and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows—
how, he himself does not know.”
Mark 4:26-27
I planted, Apollos watered,
but God was causing the growth.
So then neither the one who plants
nor the one who waters is anything,
but God who causes the growth.
1 Corinthians 3:6-7