Unseen

Until writing for the Tourist Development Council I had never given much thought to the massive quantities of marine life hidden beneath the sunrise view of the ocean I enjoy on a morning walk.

Covering a recent seafood festival people consumed mountains of stone crab, lobster, blue crab, conch, and shrimp.

At a benefit for a reef environmental group two world-renowned photographers shared pictures of anything from a tiny spider crab to an 85-foot whale shark. Even though their images illustrate dozens of books about oceans around the world they were unanimous in saying the Florida Keys is their favorite dive destination because of its variety.

This world is full of things you and I have never seen.

Just two miles from my house -- offshore in the Gulfstream or the opposite direction in the backcountry waters of the Florida Bay -- are stocks of fish I write about each week. Daily a successful catch is reported of marlin, sailfish, swordfish, tuna, dolphin, snapper, shark or grouper. Or from the bay tarpon, bonefish, snook, jacks, and permit caught and released are tokens of angling prowess.

But none of this fishing fervor was relevant until I took this job. Now I lay in bed at night and wonder what lurks under the moonlit horizon between here and the African coast – something I never did before.

By shear volume of what I can not see but know to be real, I have respect for the statement Jesus makes to his enemies, “Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?” (Matthew 26:53 NIV)

That could be as many as 60,000 angels at his disposal. Like the other things in my world I can not see, surely they are there.

Jesus trusted the unseen.

That serves as a model for us to fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:18)

When you lay down tonight, instead of being afraid, worrying or discouraged what can you turn over to God and the invisible possibilities?



Gifted Quill Devotional
by Nancy Lucas
May 3, 2008
365 words