08/01/2026
Here’s Hope by Jerry Rea
He’s There
Sometimes we can’t see God, but He’s there. If you travel over the Tennessee river, you look down and all you see is water. Down deep there are large fish, perhaps a crashed automobile that’s been there for years. What about this? What about the idea or possibility that a boat sank and no one ever found it. It’s possible that people have lost watches or even wedding bands in the mud. It’s there, but you just can’t see it.
When it comes to nature it’s the same. There are bugs, snakes and other critters throughout the world, but they’re hard to see. Some are hidden under leaves, or within crevices of rocks. Some are too high up in the trees to see. There may be new and wonderful planets in our solar system, but they are lost in Milky Way type galaxies that have never been explored. When Lewis and Clark explored our great nation’s west, they recorded wonderful things that had never been seen by the Easterners of our new nation. Once again, the idea is that they were there but not “seen”.
A couple of years ago, I fell and cut open my forearm. The skin was peeled back in a way I’d never witnessed in my own body or anyone else’s. I got to see my own ligaments in living color up close and personal. I still bear a scar from the day I got to see something in my own body that was there all along. So, from birth I’d had ligaments. They had helped me play baseball as a young boy. They’d helped me throw papers as a “paper boy.” I’d picked up heavy bags, neither by the skin nor the blood but by these ligaments that now were “revealed” to me. Let me say it once more. They were there all the time, but this was the first day I’d ever seen them. Those ligaments were real, but covered by my skin.
God is just the same way. Is it possible that God is there, but we just don’t see Him? I don’t think it’s possible, I know it’s true. God makes appearances but just as often, He works behind the scenes. He often seems to prefer working without being seen. He is a Spirit. Jesus taught us that the spirit is like the wind. You don’t see the wind but you do see what the wind does. When we see the wind moving through the trees, we recognize it. We don’t see the force, but we see the evidence. God is much the same. I guess that’s why Jesus chose this illustration to help us understand the Spirit, but also God Himself.
So, is it possible that God is working in your life but you just don’t see Him. He’s there.
I love you - just believe He’s There!
Jerry Rea
