The car windshield wipers in the rain had me thinking that we are ALWAYS looking past the fast pace of them to see out…see past the wipers onto the road… and this reminded me to think HOW WE ARE TO SEE PAST THE WORLD and it’s worldliness and brokenness to SEE FURTHER… Seeing how fast the wipers fly is just like the crazy times, and yet we can see further past,  even if in glimpses. We might even make the windshield soaked with wiper fluid, temporarily, making the view worse. Clear views are our hope. Same with our eyeglasses or the eyes of our hearts…

God set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

AND, in looking past the windshield (which is thankfully protective like our thick skin), let us pray to SEE PAST THE WORLD unto SEEING THE WONDER well up ahead… see PAST THE WORLD to SEE THE WAY…

SEE JESUS SHINING AND SHOWING US THE WAY. 

These opportunities for thoughtfulness, let them rain on us and reign in us. God ALSO saw to it that I had converging spiritual reminders with the Jesus Calling devotional that day… Sarah Young writes from scripture that if we remember that we reside in a fallen world, where blessings and sorrows intermingle freely, then we need to make sure we KEEP WALKING THROUGH THE DAY, keeping going, focusing on the Lord not the lostness or craze… and we are to keep our minds (sometimes enjoyingly and sometimes tearfully) LOOKING for the LIGHT of JESUS SHINING…

Hold onto the hope which is holding onto you. 

We do live in a fallen world, and even though the rainy weather could be interpreted as gloomy, yet on this day in our current drought, the rain IS what we have prayed for. The rain IS necessary, needed, and productive – especially if we, like farmers, are seeing and seeding the Lord’s HOPE in distant or ever-nearer-coming  views. 

Let us keep wiping away from the worldliness to see the Way!

Let us also keep the clarity of our heart windshields – walk by faith not sight – and keep focus of thought and keep moving forward. Shrug off the rain and feel the LOVE.

Follow Jesus, He knows the Way. 

Amen 

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Proverbs 3:5-8

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 your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-14 also from wise Solomon 

A Time for Everything

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.