Everything we see going on around us is merely the tip of the iceberg. You never really know another person. That waitress that brings you your coffee and your eggs and bacon is a person with a deep history, and deep internal thoughts and struggles. You see her smile. She is more than what you see.
The things we read about on our news apps or see by video are just a cursory and brief presentation of the reality of local and global events. There is complexity behind every simple story. There are things at work in those headlines that are invisible to human eyes.
And even on the Spiritual level, when we pray or read our Bible, we are connecting to deeper realities that we will never see on the surface. We live our entire existence skipping along the surface of a very deep ocean.
As my pastoral role has me diving into some deep waters with people right now, I am finding comfort in the reminder that God is always at work in ways I will never see . . . In hearts, in the fabric of circumstances, in the weaving of time into what we will one day call history.
And so I pray in hope. But mine is not a hope for understanding, or a hope for answers, or a hope for clear guidance . . . But mine is a hope IN the God who will win this war. He’s got us!
The darkness is real. And it sometimes breaks through the surface to face us in the daylight. In those moments when I see that the fallenness of our world is more than a theory, I am comforted to know that there is not an infinite regression to the deep and hidden things. There is a hard, solid foundation to everything. His name is Yahweh. He is Creator. He is God. His Son is Jesus. And He is good.
