Red Wednesday's Wisdom - Unseen

Over the past few weeks I have been pondering on what the word unseen has meant to me. I have routinely found myself asking this question, “What do I accept as existing even though it remains unseen?” I think it would be fun to see how each of us would respond to this question. So I would like to ask you to take a moment to slow down and reflect on how you would answer this question with just one word, and then give a brief explanation.

The one word that comes to me as I write this post is “camera.” My mother and daughter, Lauren, are the picture takers in our family. And unfortunately, Mom misplaced her camera on Christmas Eve. If you have ever misplaced anything of importance, you know how frustrating it can become when you can not find or see what you have lost. What is most disturbing to my Mom is that the camera was loaded with hundreds of undeveloped pictures from a very recent trip to the South Pacific. So Lauren has been providing coverage for all the family photo shoots as we have pulled together in our continued search of the unseen camera. Mom remembers telling herself, “Put the camera up out of reach of the kids!” So even though we have looked in the high up places and now even the down low places as well, including all of the disgusting trash, the camera remains unseen and out of reach, at least for now. But I am hopeful that it will be seen when least expected.

The one word that came to me last week after seeing my doctor was “attack”. It had been one of those good news bad news scenarios. The good news was that the cancer called Waldenstrom’s had greatly diminished. The concerning news, was that there could be another type of cancer showing up. Upon hearing this update, I immediately thought about the supernatural world that is unseen. From a physical standpoint I was seeing the information that had been obtained from a variety of testing, but from a spiritual perspective I was also very aware of the unseen world that was influencing my report.

This got affirmed for me the next morning when I got a phone call from a relative who knew nothing about my doctor’s appointment. Here was the message, “Colleen, I woke up this morning and could hear in my spirit that you have been under attack. I saw an army of angels on white horses and they were fighting for you. It was like a civil war between the angels and the demons! And this was the Scripture that had been put on my heart for you, ‘Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.’ Ephesians 6:11.” I had spoken these same words to my daughter just an hour earlier in regards to some things she has been fighting and battling through!

Here is what I could see. The good news from my doctor was God answering all those prayers for medical wisdom and healing of the cancer. Even though God and His Holy Spirit are unseen, I can still see the evidence of His power. And because Satan exists in that unseen world as well, I could also see the evidence of how he wanted to steal, kill and destroy me as God’s Word tells me in John 10:10. Satan wanted to take any good news and overshadow it with the bad news! But here is the bottom line. God continues to tell me in John 10:10 that He came so that I could have life and have it to the fullest. My healing is not yet complete, but it is in the process of being COMPLETE and FULL, even though it is unseen.

2 Corinthians 4:18 says, “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary and what is unseen is eternal."

As you slow down to consider what exists in your own life that is unseen, I hope you will help me to "see" the "unseen" thoughts that you have by sharing them in the comments section of this posting in regards to that one word I asked you to reflect on earlier, and it's explanation. I also ask that you intercede on my mother’s behalf and ask for God’s guidance in helping Mom to remember where she placed her camera. Yes, God cares about all of the details of our lives, even those that involve an unseen camera, and I know there is a story that is connected to it being found!