When You Can't See A Thing

I knew it was going to be a cold morning, but not this cold.  This is San Antonio, for goodness sakes! I had forever forgotten the cold weather drills I had learned from living in the Midwest. With drizzle coming down hard on my windshield, I decided to try the wipers. What was I thinking? The defroster couldn’t work fast enough! Thankful to find the next street, I pull off to give my defroster a chance to work. It didn’t take but a few moments and I was off on my merry way.

That moment seems to be frozen in time. I. Couldn't. See. A. Thing.

Have you experienced a time in your life when you couldn’t see one thing? For me, it was singleness. I was single a long time before I met my husband. I questioned God. It wasn’t easy to wait so long, while so many women around me were married with children. But, I never stopped believing that God had His best for me. My husband, Ben, is worth the wait! However, there were times when I didn’t see or understand what God was doing.

When we don’t see answers to our problems quickly, we can easily become confused and doubt God. We may even doubt His existence for that matter. It may be these pains in life that keep us at a distance from God! As I look back on my life, I know that God was molding and making me into the woman He wanted ME to be. I never gave up on God, even though I couldn’t see what He was doing.

Sometimes, we don’t see the whole picture. We want answers, but there are no answers. However, there were significant times in my singleness, where God would whisper encouragements to my spirit “I have a purpose in what I am doing in You and in time, you will see. Trust me.”  I now look back on my life and see the beautiful tapestry that He’s been weaving. It was worth the wait.

Trust Him, my friend. He’s so faithful, even when you don't see what's going on.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways submit to Him, and He will make our paths straight.”Proverbs 3:5-6

Nancy Abbott is the Chaplain for the YMCA of Greater San Antonio.