We have
a unique perspective on life. We are
like the little green frog who views things from under the lily pad. He sees a shadow pass overhead but doesn’t
understand what it is. If he were to
climb up on the lily pad he might see that the shadow was actually a lark
flying overhead. His world is in fact a
small pond lying cupped in a meadow and no matter how hard he tries he will
never see over the surrounding hills.
Our God’s perspective is entirely different. From far above the old eternal hills He sees
the universe, the world, the meadow, the pond and the little frog under the
lily pad.
From the
perspective of eternity the tapestry of our lives shimmers with a glory and
beauty known now only to God, but eventually also to us when we see Him face to
face. The Psalmist gives voice to our
confusion and the cries of our heart when he sings:
“Deep
calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves
have gone over me.”[i]
From our
perspective, life gets very complicated!
Often the feeling is that one trouble calls another on. We even say that disasters come in
threes. There is no biblical
justification for this glum assessment, just the fears of our anxious hearts
and an arbitrary linking of events together in ways that seem to justify the
saying. Reality is both harder and
easier. From one perspective, life is a
series of crises with resting places in between.
The
Psalmist doesn’t leave it there, but goes on to say:
“By day
the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a
prayer to the God of my life.”[ii]
It is in
the presence of the Lord of Life that we will find the storms of life
dispelled. The steadfast love of the
Lord presses upon us bidding us to open our hearts and receive His comfort. He is our Rock, our Fortress, our Hiding
Place, our Shelter in the midst of the storm.
But He is more than that. He is
the God who stands ready to redeem the effects of the storm. He says, “I will restore to you the years
that the swarming locust has eaten.”[iii]
He is the Redeemer!
Again He
says” “I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness
and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”[iv]
When it feels like the breakers and waves of life’s storm are crashing over
you, put your trust in the Lord whose perspective is eternal, who redeems not
only the past, but the present and the future as well, whose plans for us are
plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give us a future and a hope.
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