Perspective

“Those who are wise will take all this to heart;

they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord.”

Psalm 107:43

It overwhelms me that the God of the Universe, the one who breathes life into each of us and with the blink of an eye can take it away, the one who put the stars into place and keeps the earth in motion writes my past, present and future.

How can someone so big, powerful and mighty be so intimate and personal? How can the God of Heaven be so close?

I don’t get it, I don’t understand it and I can’t explain it but I am so thankful for these truths.

He is close. He is personal. He is intimate.

He is in control. He is the author of my story. He makes up every detail of my history and of my future.

It is so hard sometimes in the midst of trials and seasons of refinement to see the Lord’s purpose, to His faithfulness or even to see Him at all. Sometimes it takes a dose of perspective to see his fingerprint in our lives.

I’m not a fan of living in the past, but I do love me some reflection. I love to look back and see the Lord’s faithfulness in areas of my life, where at the time, it seemed so lacking. I love looking back and seeing the things he protected me from or the lessons that he was teaching me or the ways that he broke me, just to put my back together again. It is a sweet and humbling thing to be able to praise the Lord for things that once wrecked our lives and broke our hearts. I’ve said it before, but I will say it again and again and again…. I am so thankful that He is in control and I am not.

All week long I have been thinking about how each of my trials, my heart breaks, my dark days, my days of abundant light, my seasons of joy and refinement, all make up the ridges and valleys of His fingerprint on my life. And how cool that each one of us has that same beautiful fingerprint on our lives, intricately woven and written in a completely different way.

Thankful today for a dose of perceptive and humility.