I get up in the morning and after a time of prayer and meditating on God's word, I try to write one of these “Truth Matters” and then proceed down to the barn to feed the horses. It's about a hundred yard walk. The sun is reflecting off the snow and by the time I get to the barn, I walk into the feed room and experience “snow blindness”...that is, the dimly lit feed room becomes completely black. After a few minutes my eyes adjust and can begin to see to get the work done. I have to wait in order to see clearly.

In a way, that's how it is in our service to the Lord. We walk in the bright light of God's revelation to us...we study His word...we seek Him to speak to us...we rejoice in His revealed truth to us...and then proceed to be used by Him only to find we enter into a dimly lit area where we experience “revelation blindness”...that is, we can't see how God is purposefully orchestrating our lives to be used for Him.

It's the “waiting” that becomes a hurdle to us...because we want “results” we can see and somehow manipulate. We are “cause & effect” people often discounting God's sovereign, omniscient purposes for us. In other word, we may not know or see what God is doing through us until God takes away our “revelation blindness” and gives us confidence that He is in charge AND...the results are His. Before heading down to the barn to feed the horses, I am praying this for you and me this day: Lord, turn our impatience into trust and confidence in Your working in and through us. Help us to be faithful through times of “spiritual blindness” as You gradually open our eyes and allow us to see and trust in Your hand. Amen.

Whittle's hymn written in 1884 still points to our response to “revelation blindness:”

I know not why God's wondrous grace
to me is daily shown,
nor why, with mercy, Christ in love
redeemed me for his own.

But “I know whom I have believed,
and am persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I've committed
unto him against that day.”

Walk with the King today and be a blessing.