A couple of mornings ago, I was driving home from dropping my husband off at the BART station, and I was heading home during a HUGE rainstorm!  Windshield wipers were full blast, cars were going slower, gushing water was flooding the curbs and drains…and the storm outside felt to me, much the same as the storm I was feeling inside.  I’m so DONE with this stormy season that we’ve been in for almost a year now!  God…it’s too much!  For some reason (had to be God), I suddenly thought of that phrase that people say…you know the one…”Seeing is believing!”  It was such an out of the blue thought to come into my mind right then!  But just as quickly as it came, a second phrase followed it…and although this one was a tiny bit different in wording, it was worlds apart in meaning…

“Believing is seeing.”

Wow!  Did I just come up with that?  How cool am I?!? 🙂  Ha! Ha! Okay, we all know it was NOT me.  As soon as I thought about it’s meaning, I knew pretty quickly that it was God speaking.  He’s been bumping me into faith a lot lately…and what it means to live in faith.  So there it was again…

BELIEVING…is…seeing…

I’m ashamed to admit that my prayers lately have been constructed more out of fear, worry and doubt.  It’s as if I’m so busy watching our boat getting tossed in the waves by the storm… and praying to SURVIVE, that I’m totally missing the mark!  I should be keeping my eyes on the God of the universe who has the power to quiet the storm…not focusing on the storm!  Yikes!!  I’ve been hoping to SEE so I could better BELIEVE.

Bummer.  It was a quiet car ride home.

But in His love and mercy, God showed up in my car ride to tell me to pray from a different view.  I’m not even joking when I say that in the few days since that car ride, I’ve been praying from a believing standpoint…and I’ve been seeing more answered prayers…even the little ones!  🙂

“Tami…if you BELIEVE my word to be true…if you BELIEVE that what I’ve promised you will come to pass…if you BELIEVE in ME even when you can’t see it yet and the storms are so blinding that you can’t see the road ahead…then…you will SEE.”

Cool, huh?  I’m encouraged to hang on! 🙂

Extraordinary things are ahead…and I can’t wait to blog about them! 🙂

 

Hebrews 11:1 says, “faith is the CONFIDENCE that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.”

Believing is seeing. 🙂