A DEEPER KNOWING

I look out my window.

The trees stand bare… the brown branches dark, frozen, lifeless. By all appearances, they are dead. This is what I see. This is what the facts tell me.

But, I continue to learn there is more. There is a deeper knowing.

I am working to know beyond the seeing. Winter has never had the final word. Beneath the frozen surface, life is still present. Roots are holding. Growth is frostily waiting. What looks barren and dead is not given up to death, it is resting.

And so it is with God’s quiet work in me.

Not every season of faith looks warm, green and alive. Some seasons are still, cold, and seemingly iced out. But silence is not absence. Stillness is not stagnation. It is not God’s untended indifference for my wellbeing. 

God still works. He is active in the stillness. Often beneath the surface, the Faithful One is strengthening, preparing, enriching, and sustaining… even when nothing appears to be happening… nothing at all. 

Today, I choose to trust what I know, not just what I see. I am committing to my deeper knowing. The season will change. The frozenness will pass. Life will rise again.

And me? Well, I will be better, I will be stronger, I will be more faithful, I will be more trusting. For I have seen through the eyes of a deeper knowing. 

Prayer

Lord of Frozen Seasons, help me trust You in the cold, seemingly barren, and beneath the surface, times. When I cannot physically see You working, remind me that You are there, that You are working, and I should use my eyes of deeper knowing. In the name of the One who always saw You clearly at work… Amen.