I am mesmerized by sunrises and sunsets, the spectacular bookends of the day. When we are camping or taking a long road trip, I stay attentive as the sun creeps closer and closer to the horizon, the point when the earth meets the sky. Each moment reveals even more beauty than the moment before.
The horizon is also the point just outside our field of vision, beyond what we know and have experienced yet. And that is where faith fits in. Trusting God is going toward what or where we cannot yet see, the cusp of what was, and is, and is to be. Wherever we go, there we are.
It is not for us to just gaze at the horizon from where we are right now and hope that things will work out (future tense with a smiley face). But knowing God is already working all things out, past, present and way out there.
Because when we are walking with God, we stand right now where was once the horizon. His glory extends on both sides, before and behind, His faithfulness visible even to the naked eye.
As we navigate through this present moment, God is preparing us for that horizon where He is bringing us, beckoning us to come, sowing His Word, and being faithful even on this little patch of ground beneath our feet. Even in this desert place, this miry bog, these unrelenting hills.
And what we discover along the way is that God is not far off after all. Wherever we are, there He is.
...as we look not to the things that are seen
but to the things that are unseen.
For the things that are seen are transient,
but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4. 18
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