What You Can’t See

“What you can’t see is there is hope.  What you can’t see is there is more.  What you can’t see is there is victory to come.  When what you see seems hopeless, remember that there is more that you can’t see.”

Loren Thornburg

Easter is the celebration of the resurrection.  To resurrect is to raise from the dead, restore to life, revive, regenerate, revitalize, breathe new life into, bring back to life, reinvigorate, rejuvenate.  We all have places in our hearts and lives that we need and desire this resurrection.  What I am reminded of this year in the story of the resurrection is what no one could see.  While everyone was mourning Christ was given new life.  I’m not saying there shouldn’t be mourning in the face of tragedy.  What I am saying is there was more going on than what they could see.  They couldn’t see behind the tombstone.  Sometimes healing and restoration are happening in ways we can’t see and in places we don’t know.  So while you walk through places where all you can see is defeat and hopelessness remember that there is more going on that you can’t see.  There is so much more going on beyond the things we see.  It takes faith, it takes hope, it takes trust to believe in what you can’t see.

“Now the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will personally restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little.”

1 Peter 5:10 HCSB

God is a god of resurrecting.  He loves bringing life into things that were once dead.  We see it all throughout the Bible, story after story of what was once dead, now made alive.  He has a habit of personally restoring places of loss and suffering.  He has a way of changing the unchangeable, restoring the broken beyond repair and bringing hope to the utterly hopeless.  He knows you and He knows how to personally and intimately bring you to the full life He created you to live.  You only have to let Him and invite Him into those places.  It may seem impossible that things could ever change for us.  Yet, this is the God of all grace who raised Jesus from the dead.  Just as He was at work behind Jesus’ tombstone, so He is at work behind the tombstones of our own lives raising death to life in ways you can’t see.  He loves to resurrect.  So though all you see now is suffering, trust Him for what You can’t see happening behind the tombstones of your life.  He is at work to personally restore, establish, strengthen, and support you.