...do you not perceive it?

"Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?"

Isaiah 43:19

Amazing! I remember planting these spruce trees. Now they tower over my head and provide shelter to our house from harsh south winds.

How did this happen? I did not see these trees grow. It was a slow, imperceivable process. Now it seems they have grown to be giants overnight.

God works the same way. Unless we choose to see, unless we look closely with eyes set on Him, we do not see the new thing God is doing. Yet the new thing comes whether we see it happening or not. It is my choice to trust in that new thing and rejoice in Him... or look the other way in despair or distraction. If I choose the latter I will be caught unaware and unprepared for the new thing God has been preparing and suffer much anguish in the mean time. Yet if I choose to perceive God's great workings, no matter what hurtles and difficulties come along the way, I will receive the joy of the Lord for each day and be ready to go forward into that good, new thing. I must choose to perceive! Will you, too?