Author Darlene J. Conard

As I scrolled through to catch up on friends’ Facebook posts, a picture caught my attention. It appeared that a cow stood on a fence pole. It was absolutely convincing! Out of curiosity I read further down thinking the photographer photoshopped it. No, it wasn’t photoshopped nor filtered. Everything legit? Not exactly. The photographer’s position created an illusion. Perspective makes a difference.

Behind the scenes the distance between the cow and the wooden pole made a tremendous difference! How many times do we look at our situations thinking impossibility? God is fully aware of details.

Often, we hear messages of Sarah laughing when angels delivered the message, she would bear a son in her old age. (Genesis 18:12-14) Abraham laughed as well. (Genesis 17:17) We concentrate on Abraham’s stand firm faith. How could he laugh? The truth is we’ve all laughed thinking our situation is too farfetched for God to answer. Maybe it’s been years that’s passed or we can’t unroot believing He has power to change the matter. It could be someone is praying for you and I to change for God’s glory. Change seems impossible to the ones standing in the wrong perspective. My friend, we simply can’t allow our natural eyes to direct us to spiritual matters.

… “Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7 KJV) This verse is referring to Samuel’s assignment from God. Jessies sons lined up, one would be anointed king. God rejected every one of them. The true king wasn’t present. “Are these your only sons?” Samuel asked. Noone thought of David, after all why would God want a shepherd boy?  (1 Samuel 16:1-13) He was anointed and the Spirit of the Lord was upon David in the midst of his family.

We cannot see what God is doing on the inside of people. God is doing a miraculous work in the lives of the people we are praying for. 

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Romans 4:16-17 KJV

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