“Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.” Psalm 77:19
How often have you heard the comment, “
I didn’t see it at the time, but now I recognize how God was leading me”. When young Joseph, (
eventually to become a Hebrew patriarch)
was thrown into a desert pit by his brothers and later sold into
slavery, observers could rationally have argued that God was not in the
picture. Yet years later, after enduring the suffering of
misunderstanding, abandonment, treachery and prison, and now in a
position of authority, he would confidently say, “
God sent me. You
intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is
now being done, the saving of many lives.”
It takes faith in a sovereign and loving God to believe that even
when His footprints cannot be seen, He is leading through the thrashing
waters of the sea of life. And because He is sovereign and loving, His
plans for us include a hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11
Loving Father, help me see your footprints with the eyes of faith
when I seem to be drowning in the swirling waters that seem to be
sucking me into their depths. Thank you for your love even when it
cannot be seen.
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