No Guesswork

You know those little peep holes in hotel doors?  I don’t like looking through those!  Once when I looked through, there was an eyeball looking right back at me – scared me to death!  You shouldn’t have to guess WHO it was!

God often chooses unexpected ways to reveal Himself to Believers.  Oh, how we love to see Him in the serenely peaceful moments of life but, in reality, that’s not always how it happens.  Oddly enough, only a short time after His death the disciples saw Jesus walking on the water and Scripture says, “they thought it was a ghost, and cried out, for they all saw him and were terrified.” (Mark 6:49-50)  No one really knows, but perhaps what frightened them was the unusual way Jesus appeared to them.  So it is with us sometimes: in desperation, we seem to wait and wait and not see or hear from the Lord.  We fail to understand He is in every providence but doesn’t always come in the form of sunshine.  No, sometimes it’s in the dark of night that He draws near.  Oh, that we will see Christ in event of life – joy and sorrow, calm and storm, sunshine and rain.  In whatever form He chooses to reveal Himself, make no mistake – “Christ is all and is in all.” (Colossians 3:11)  I am committed to do my level best to avoid looking through peep holes, but take great comfort and peace in knowing with confidence Who is near in every moment of life.  No guesswork!