But Where Are The Wonders?

 

You are the God

      who works wonders.

You have made known

  Your might among the peoples.

            Psalm 77. 14

Victories, wonders

   and all things marvelous

  don't just happen

      like a magic trick.

God does not work that way.

God does not

     bring them about,

  but reveals Himself

already in our situation.

  No matter how troubled

  or difficult,

    He is here among us. 

Talk to Me,

      walk with Me through this,

not only to the other side

   but all along the way.

But where are the wonders?

We are just in 

     the middle of the chapter.

God brings about the extraordinary,

His redeeming in the impossible,

His light filtered in our despair,

that which is unexpected,

    supernatural and spectacular.

He works, unfolds, prepares,

   makes ready, appoints,

                and completes.

Now watch this! He whispers to us.

    That we may know Him.

O LORD,

We come to You in our struggles.

We do not pray to 

     the god of favorable outcomes

      or glimmering idols of success,

                 but pray to You.

Grant to us Your strength.

Help us to see You here,

looking for sacred 

     in whatever we face today.

We cannot yet see wonders,

    but we can know 

            You hold us tight

in the darkness and storm.

And then someday, somehow,

   You bring the sense to it.

And right before us,

when we least expect it,

            the sun rises

   and the shadows evaporate.

And Your glory is there