Blocking Grace

On my way to work this morning, I noticed the most beautiful sunrise.  There is something to be said for the arctic temperatures we're experiencing - it can create the most breathtaking scenes.  The hazy orange sphere was starting to peek over the city's horizon, cool gray clouds being pushed out of the way except for one, particularly dark gray cloud which blocked the light.  Below this blockade were the soft glow of oranges and yellows but then immediately a dark mass keeping the light low and hidden; or so it thought, for if you looked above the mass, reflecting off the soft white rolls of the clouds above, was the same gentle yellows and golden orange glows that shown below.  These rays were spread wide over the sky above and that's what got me thinking - God's grace works this way too.

For those of us who have released our selfishness and allowed God in our lives, we started by the source, that warm glow of God's love and grace that He gives to all His children.  Then something blocks us from that love, that grace that He willingly provides - or so we think.  It's dark and ominous and in the midst of it, we cannot see even a hint of light.  All hope seems lost as we wander around wishing there was a way around or through this chaos we've found ourselves in.  But we need to remember that our vision is limited to only what we can see; He sees FAR more than we do.  Like the sunrise I saw this morning, His grace is still there, His love is still there, it's just being blocked by this cloud of chaos and it's distorting our vision. 

God hasn't abandoned you while you're in your greatest time of need, He's right there, shining through, we just can't always see it.  So when you're in the middle of a crisis or going through something in your life where you feel God has blocked His grace and His love for you and left you to fend for yourself, remember that simply letting go, stepping back and resting in Him, we can once again see His grace and love shining above and far beyond anything we could ever hope to imagine.