When Vision is Lacking

When vision is lacking in our lives,
 it is easier to go into a functioning mode, 

than to be still and wait. 

What we do in our times of fog

 will reveal what our relationship 

is with the Father. 

We have mistaken “Seeing Him” 
too much with “Feeling Him”

“Behold, the eye of the Lord 
is on those who fear Him.
 On those who
hope for His loving kindness, 
to deliver their soul from death 
and to keep them
 alive in famine.”
Ps. 33:18-19

Learning to live before Him

 with hope in famine 

will render the fruit of a leaf

 that does not wither.

 (Ps. 1:3) 

We have been planted

 by streams of water, 

which yields its fruit in its season. 

Flourishing then becomes a way of life, because roots grow deeper in drought.  I learn that it is not what I see, or what happens to me in a day...but my response to it.  The more I learn to look to HIM, the less dependent I am for perfect conditions. I grow in trust, even though I do not see the results I want. These are the places, He goes deeper, in my own heart. 

An established tree is not as dependent on perfect conditions as a younger tree. 

Many have learned to function by those things that are temporary (relationship, activities or duties) but those who flourish in famine have set their affections on eternal things.

Faith is the substance of things HOPED for, and the evidence of things...unseen...

Father, grow us up in YOU...rooted and established in Your love.

“What do our heavy hearts prove?~that other things are sweeter to us than His will, that we have not attained to the full mastery of our true freedom the full perception of its power, that our son ship is yet but faintly realized, and its blessedness not yet proved and known. Our consent would turn our trials into obedience. By consenting we make them our own, and offer them with ourselves again to Him. ~H.E. Manning

 "Our own ABOUNDING HOPE would empower us to testify to how although we too once felt the sentence of death in our hearts, we realize that this was only that we would not rely on ourselves but on our Lord Jesus.  In an ABOUNDING HOPE we would declare just like Paul, the Lord has delivered me, He is still delivering me today and I am absolutely convinced He will always deliver me.  This HOPE would keep us from giving up on others who are slow and who have fallen again.   It might even empower us to actually help restore someone overtaken in a fault because we are ABOUNDING in HOPE that God's mercy can turn their persistent problem into His own deliverance just like it has done for us so many times."~Alan