Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. When I met with the Living God on this last day of January, I confessed to Him that I was already weary of the Winter and that I was already longing for Spring. I confessed to Him that sometimes my Soul is downcast over something as trivial as the weather. I whined a little about needing to see the beauty of His Creation in living color…the brown replaced with green, and the cold replaced with warmth. And right in the middle of my whine session before a Mighty God – when He had every right to take me to the Spiritual Woodshed of the ungrateful – He spun the most beautiful Reminder to me instead and He taught me a Lesson like only a Father can. At this very second there are countless miracles and endless details taking place in the “background” to prepare for all those things I’m longing for…every single detail of my Life (and the world around me) is already in place by His Hand and my Future is already Written even though I can’t see or feel it yet. Now THAT’S something to celebrate on a gloomy-looking winter day!

It can be so easy to want to rush things along sometimes and it’s even easier to whine about things that we have absolutely no control over if we’re not careful. But the same God who plants the seed of life in a frozen ground to prepare it to sprout in the Spring is the God who already has all of the Details of my life Planned out too! The same God who plants the seed of Life in the womb of a woman is the same God who already knows all of the Details of that new life AND He knows the final Destiny even before we know to take a pregnancy test. Life doesn’t exist by accident and it doesn’t thrive by fate. Whether that life is a tree, a bug, or a precious child…the Living God Created it ALL and He makes no mistakes. Every single intricate Detail of everything in our world was Designed, and will be forever Managed, by the Hand of a Mighty God. What does the God of Wonder think of His children when we find something OR someone to whine about while surrounded by the Majesty of the One who scattered the stars in the sky and Knows them each by name? “What is man that You are mindful of him?” It’s only when we dig below the surface of our selfishness that we learn to die to ourselves and exchange whining for Celebrating a Future we can’t even see yet. This is the Key to Faith.

As surely as I know that Spring will come again soon, I know the Plans He has for me too, even though I can’t see all the Details unfolded yet. I am confident that the daffodils will sprout from the ground one day soon, and I’m confident that I’ll be sitting in the sun in no time at all. I know the trees will bud when the leaves are ready to fill the branches, and I know I’ll see the offspring of nature all around the farm in just a matter of weeks. I am Confident that He knew Precisely when I would be born into this world, and He knows precisely when I’ll leave it. He already knew that I would Love Him and that I’d be a Willing Servant through this Journey of Faith…AND He knew how to Mold me into His Vessel to be used for Eternal things. He already Knows each time I’ll falter and every time I’ve failed, and He already Knows I’ll shout out my Victory Story for all the world to hear after He sees me through the Trial. Every single Detail of my Life is already in the Works. So, how can I NOT Celebrate what God has in store for me even though I can’t see or feel it yet?

How about you?