Where Is Your Focus?

This picture was photographed back in 2006 on a drive back from the Tetons in Wyoming.

So you have this big ominous cloud...run Toto, runnnn Forrrrest!

Where is your focus?

Sometimes when things are so HUGE that's ALL we can see until we look at the whole picture.

Some of you might say, "Marge, life is pretty dark right now; that nasty looking cloud describes perfectly the ongoing storms in my life. It's all I can see." I would say to you that I could certainly understand that and am not here to correct you with a religious answer. Storms ARE scary. The disciples "had Jesus right in the boat with 'em" during the STORM and they said, "Do you not CARE that we are PERISHING???" as Jesus slept peacefully while in their presence...

...While Jesus was WITH them in the storm...

(by the way, He did awaken and told the shrieking wind, pounding waves and stinging rain to BE STILL AND AT PEACE.) It was easy to "be still and know that He was God THEN...but how do you be still and know He is God DURING the storm?

Where is your focus?

I am reminded that FAITH is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things NOT SEEN.
Unseen hope and evidence...

So what do I SEE in the UNSEEN while keeping in mind HOPE and EVIDENCE?

I see some intimidating dark clouds, but I also see the SUN behind the clouds.
I see rain watering the land in a soft looking shower.
I see "a clearer day" on the left.

And let's say something about that opening right smak dab in the middle of the clouds:
It is true that as the world grows darker, the Lord's coming is drawing nearer. And although I do not want to be the kind of believer that says, "I'm just hanging on til the Rapture" I am comforted by the words found in  First Thessalonians 4:16-18 while I continue to work until the sky splits and the Master returns:

"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words."

Where is your focus?