What am I Really Seeing?

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. (Proverbs 26:12)

We have no earthly idea what is taking place in the spirit realm. We can barely grasp the little we see here on earth! We’ve all read the story of the man on the subway with his three little ones who are acting out and disrupting the ride for the other passengers. The father is really not paying attention and seems “checked out”. Finally one of the other passengers has had enough and tells the father he needs to get his wild kids under control. And in a daze he apologizes and tells the passenger that they just came from his wife’s funeral and he guesses they don’t really know what to do with themselves.

Often we don’t know what we are seeing. Wild kids or grieving kids? The two may look the same. Solomon, here and in Proverbs 3:5&6 (and elsewhere), reminds us that we cannot trust our perception. We are finite. We see with our eyes but misinterpret what we see. We don’t see or grasp the whole picture with its implications. We can’t, but God can. He sees all—both the physical and the spiritual—and He knows all and He knows how it all fits together. So when we read that we are to trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not on our own understanding, that we are to acknowledge God in all our ways and He will direct our path…we need to take heed to that wise advice. 

I don’t want my life to be more hopeless than that of a fool! I want to walk by faith; not by sight. I want to trust solely in the Lord. I want to recognize that God is God and I want to rely on Him to direct me. Are you with me?