When We Don't See

What do you do when you cant see?
When God brings you to a place where you are unable to see what is ahead of you.

As we prepare to welcome our child into this world we, like all parents, are met with a certain amount of blindness, not knowing what to expect or exactly what we have coming.  As I sit and type this, feeling our little baby wiggle around inside me, I cannot help but recognize those feelings.  I have no idea what is coming!

God has brought us here to train.  To train for something that is of most importance to us, and to God!  We long to play a role in taking His Word to those who do not have it.  There are so many that have never felt the hope that we have!  There are so many that go to sleep at the end of every day living in fear, who have not yet been able to know the peace that can only come from God.  Every single day Mitch and I thank God for what He has done for us!  We are so thankful for Christ's death, a death that was not deserved, but was freely given so that we might know the God who created us, loves us, and longs to know us in a personal relationship.  We have been given freedom!  And we long for others to know this same freedom.  That is why we are here. 

We both cannot deny the fact that God has brought us this far.  The things that have taken place up to this point in our lives that have lead us to this exact moment have been undeniably God working His will out in our lives.

As we head into March break, prepare for our babies arrival, and look to finishing up this coming semester we are met with darkness, blindness.  We cannot see how things are going to go in the months to come.  We cannot know if our baby will come early, on time, or late.  We cannot see the way in which God is going to provide for us to stay here, and we cannot see anything that He might have for us to come in our future.

But we can see that He is sovereign.  We can see that He will direct us in His timing.  We can see that He is good, and we can trust that He will lead us in the way that is best for us and our family.

So...today.  Today is what we have.  Today we will trust Him.  Today we will look to our Saviour for strength, for wisdom, and for peace.  Today we will choose to believe the One that saved us from darkness, hopelessness, and fear.  Today we will rest in our own blindness and rely upon His perfect sight to guide us as we each day at a time.