The Hidden Things God Does In Our Lives

Have you ever wondered what God is doing, or felt that you’d have greater faith if you could see what He is working on in your life?  We can pray to see His hand at work.  But the things we see might surprise us.

I prayed this prayer a few days ago and the Lord did not show me that He was forming stars or vanquishing enemies of the faith.  He began unraveling how the broken people in our lives are knit together in a final, and good, purpose.  You see, it is His grace that enables the good we do.  For us to fulfill our calls, it takes the wholeness of God.

God showed me that the worst trials with other broken people weren’t given to discipline us hatefully, but lovingly.  As a Father, God has His eye on us overcoming our nature so as to become more like His nature (Heb 12:10-11).  To partake of His divine nature we must let go of the selfishness that the flesh and the world prefer.  But above all this, we need to grow in the ability to love selflessly.

Love is brought about in a man’s heart many ways. But it is during the trials with broken people that love deepens, sending down roots that will hold it in place during the storms of life.  As love grows, we become capable of not only enduring hardships, but of taking on more of Christ’s nature of selflessness.

To see God’s hand at work in our lives might surprise us.  We are part of His eternal thoughts.  We will awake one day in His image, and all because of the many things that we do not see on this earth and in our lives.  Amen.