Done In Secret 🤫🤐

Recently, the news has been in quite a stir over the disappearance of a local social media influencer.

Those that have been fans of hers are feeling particularly saddened and aggrieved by the whole situation... and probably a little fearful of what developments may come next.

If you're not really a social media person, or even if you are but perhaps you may not have been a follower of her particular channel, it would likely surprize you the kind of support that has mobilized, even to the point of national attention as a result.

Consider also another incident that recently went viral... that of the baptism of a very popular longstanding, local celebrity broadcaster, popularly known as "Barry G".

In a similar fashion, if you hadn't been following his channels, that news would probably have come as a complete shock to you.

While the sudden revelation of these kinds of news and events and happenings may catch us off-guard, do you think any of it caught God unawares as well?

Of course not.

The bigger point is that there are always a gazillion things going on that we don't see and just aren't aware of.  There is always a multitude of things that don't make the news and that we don't hear about until it either blows up and becomes unignorable, or maybe a producer or editor somewhere decides to shine some light on it and give it some focused attention.

Either way, this should serve as a beacon of hope for us.

"How so?" you ask?

Well, sometimes you pray and you pray and you pray... maybe for a person, probably for your nation, and you're just not seeing anything that looks like movement from God's side of the fence.  Then you start to lose hope.

However, as we've seen, MANY times, God is actually very much at work and on the case.  He is busy answering our very prayers, we just haven't seen it yet... it nuh reach our part yet.

Just as in the case of things that end up in the spotlight, there is sooo much that happens in the background leading up to that moment, that we are clueless about.

It is always a timely reminder when we encounter scripture that encourages us never to lose hope, that God is always working, that God is always in control.

Sometimes we forget, and sometimes in our low times, it starts to sound like something we merely tell ourselves, to comfort ourselves, like some kind of fairy tale.

The truth is that God IS in control... and not meaning just now, because you're going through some kind of challenge or struggle.  Everything that you witness going on around you is part of God's working.

Sometimes the more apt question to ask is whether God's work is going on in tandem with you, or in spite of you.  Are we trusting God, or kicking against the prick?

Without Faith it is impossible to please God, because we could never keep track of all the zillions of moving parts His plan has, we have to just trust Him with total abandon and believe in Him to act and to do what's best.

So keep on praying, keep on believing and keep on hoping.

Ensure that your every effort contributes to God's glorious end game, much of which, before it comes into the light, is Done In Secret.