Finding Trust In Blindness

There is an elderly woman named Claire who rises each morning and waits on her front porch for the arrival of her friend, another elderly woman. Together they sit while her friend reads aloud from God's Word. At the closing of the reading, hands are extended and eyes are closed in prayer, as the ladies commit the day to doing God's will—Claire is blind.

 

At times in our lives we may feel as though we are blind too, but not in the physical sense as Claire is.

 

Freethinking, we can whip up future plans like no other. Unlike Claire we are able to see beyond our next breath and are certain that we have our lives figured out—our future plans are in the bag. Determining for sure that those plans are truly for our best and the best for God's kingdom is another matter entirely.

 

That's were waiting comes in…waiting, waiting, waiting for God to reveal His will.

 

God must be sought continually for the direction in which He is preparing us for and leading us in. Let's not forget that God calls us to be faithful in every circumstance of our lives—extraordinary or not. Many times, we may get restless and in fact we are right where we should be and are making a huge impact.

 

We will go through seasons where we are compelled to wait in perfect simplicity—in blind trust—for God to reveal to us His will and direction that we are to go. It may feel as though we have been left behind or worse yet out of sight out of mind.

 

Like Claire's blindness our respective situations require faith.

 

We can be confident, as we are waiting, that waiting on God is never in vain. In reality, our blindness will cease and we will see that in our time of waiting we have established a deeper level of trust in God. As we are waiting and resting we can have full confidence that the Giver of Sight will one day show us a wider view—that doesn't sound like blindness now does it?

 

Corrie ten Boom once said: "Never fear to trust an unknown future to a known God."

 

Although we may feel as though our waiting is futile, we must remember that God's ways are best. And as we wait we are to be glorifying God by becoming radiant beacons of selfless trust. That's not so bad, is it?