I Can't See

Did you know that when people are asked "would you rather be deaf or blind?" overwhelmingly people say they would rather be deaf. Most say they do not know how they would survive a world of complete darkness.

I think I choose deafness as well, even though I love listening to music and hearing my family and friends laugh. I love to talk and engage with others but there is something so frightening to me about not being able to see at all. To not be able to look into my husband's eyes and see love reflected back. To not see when my daughter feels bad but tries to hid it from me. To not see the beautiful food creations that my son puts on a plate. To be unable to go anywhere or do anything without some kind of assistance; guide dog, cane, friend. That would be TORTURE!

Do you know what being blind requires? Complete and total TRUST! Trust in someone or something to get me where I need to go. Trust that the guide dog won't run off after a cat, dragging me down the street. Trust that the cars won't hit me when I try to make it across the street swinging that really cool collapsible cane. Trust that my friend won't get mad at me and walk me right over a cliff. That is some scary stuff!

Well guess what? A real true and honest relationship with God requires just that.... BLIND TRUST.

God said "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

That sounds so wonderful doesn't it? Hope and future and prosper and no harm. Wow God is good! Now if only He would send me the blueprint for these plans, we'll be all good! But uh oh...it seems God is the one who knows those plans and sometimes... He ain't telling! You mean to say that God wants me to just walk in the darkness towards His end? No flashlight or lantern or torch? Not even a match? I can't even walk through my own house with my eyes closed without peeking and I know that place like the back of my hand!

But we can walk through the darkness with God! It takes knowledge, trust and faith! What we need to settle on is that we don't have to grope around wildly like a crazy person in the dark! We have a guide and a cane and a friend in The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. He won't leave us stumbling along in darkness.

MY GUIDE said “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6

MY CANE said “I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them, I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them." Isaiah 42:16

MY FRIEND said "I have come into the world as light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." John 12:46

Walk boldly forward with blinded eyes with the knowledge that God's plans for you are at work, trusting Him to fulfill His Word and with the undying faith that your hope and future are just around the next dark corner.

Seeing isn't believing...faith is (Hebrews 11:1)

In love,
Mona