So then, we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen, for what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. This month, I've been faced with some circumstances in my life that don't make sense. They go against my past experience, and have made me take a second, third, and fourth look at what I believe about God's will. It has been difficult, but I have learned that questioning isn't wrong.
Faith never goes unchallenged for long.
God is using these circumstances to strengthen my faith and my foundation in His totally unfailing love for me. Paul experienced many things in his life that didn't make sense. He had been called by God to bring the message of the cross to the Gentiles. He was under God's protection. Yet he was beaten, driven out of many towns and cities, imprisoned, shipwrecked numerous times, and experienced many other trying circumstances that didn't make much sense.