God Often Makes Promises Before He Makes Signs

​On the first day, God said, "Let there be light."

Three days later, on the fourth day, God made the sun and the moon and the stars.

God promised light and God delivered light long before he revealed signs of light.

There are things in my life that God has promised me - love and security and wellness. Only, there are days some or all of those things feel quite missing. Or inadequate.

If I think about it, on the days I get to feeling that way, those are days when I am likely looking for signs that those things are real and not looking toward the promises gifted me by the one responsible for creating the signs.

God makes promises in our life that sometimes don't look like signs of promises come true until four days later.

God makes promises in one season of our life that require many seasons in our life to look like promises come true.

Sometimes God promises a meaningful job in your life when the signs in your life look like unemployment.

Sometimes God promises you're going to be a healer in this world when the signs in your life look like battling your own addictions.

Sometimes God promises you're going to find a meaningful relationship in your life when the signs of your life look like divorce.

I have learned through the years, albeit imperfectly, to put my trust and my faith in the truth of what God has promised me more than any truth I can find in what the world is trying to show me.

(God's promises and the world quite often look different).

I can do that, again - imperfectly, because there have been so many times in my life when the signs of truth of God's promises seemed quite far from the promises themselves, only to have those signs one day arrive.

Signs that arrived in spite of me losing faith in the promises that foretold their arrival.

God said there was light. Four days later he revealed signs of it. The beauty of faith is we never have to wait to find truth in God's promises.

Signs are nice.

The sun is a beautiful reminder of light.

But the sun sometimes gets lost behind the clouds.

Signs are nice.

Faith is nicer.

Faith allows you to know light is true on the cloudiest of days.

Keep your faith in the promises; the signs are never far behind.