So this morning I let my dog out as usual. When she came back in, she immediately came running in back to the couch they lay on, frantically searching for her bone she found last night. She’s sniffing in all the cushions, under a shirt, etc. When she fails to find it, she jumps down sniffing under and around the couch, still with no success.
The funny thing is, the bone has been on the first cushion in plain sight the entire time. She jumped on cushion 2 toward 3 and failed to ever turn her vision in the right direction to find it.
But this got me thinking, how often do we do this ourselves? Not just with lost objects, but our faith or in some cases our salvation? How often do we frantically search for answers, giving up at times out of frustration when the answer isn’t where we think it should be? The answer we need could simply be behind us the whole time and we are just going the wrong way.
We are often limited in our knowledge of the world. Because of these limitations we end up putting blinders up and missing the truth that lies just outside our field of view. If you struggle finding an answer, ask God to expand your vision or turn you in the right direction so the truth you need will reveal itself.