Everyday we get older. I get more gray hair. I pause as my teenagers talk, wondering what they are saying, with their hip new words, which shows how old I am, because absolutely nobody says hip anymore.
On the outside, we are aging and getting older. On the inside, our souls are being renewed everyday. Our souls will live forever.
Seeing the Invisible
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
—2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NKJV)
It is easy to focus on what we see. Right now, I see that my husband doesn’t have a job. I know many others are in the same place. Then, you can fall into the trap of spiraling thoughts of ‘what if’ scenarios. It can be bleak.
Instead, I am going to focus in the unseen. God is there. God knows what our family needs. God provides for us. God is giving us comfort and peace as we walk into the unknown. We trust in Him. We know that God is going to come through for us in His perfect timing.
Do I wish I could know exactly what the timing is? Yes! Yet, I know that the waiting and trusting is part of the journey. We are not in charge. God is in charge. We pray for His mercy and grace on us.
The things that we see are temporary, and the things that we don’t see are eternal.
We walk by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7)
So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
—2 Corinthians 5:6-8 (NKJV)
