The video above will encourage you when you feel like God is not at work in your circumstances.
You know a rat in a maze—like you can watch the rat in the maze. The rat goes and turns a corner and oh! Wrong one! Then he comes back and turns another corner. Oh! Wrong one! Then he goes this way. Oh! Dead end! He’s just kind of feeling his way through. And then it’s a process of elimination. Eventually, the rat is going to find his way out of the maze.
And then the guy watching is like, “Oh! Smart little rat!”
But we’ve felt like those rats in a maze just hitting dead end after dead end. And it feels to us like God isn’t doing what we’d expect him to do and he doesn’t even seem that present in the process.
But the Scriptures remind us, that our feelings and our perceptions are not ultimate. They are not the final word. If we’re going to be honest, it feels that way. But the Bible confronts our feelings. And Holy Scripture tells us that it is not so—that God is not present and not working.
The Bible teaches us that God is always present and active in our lives, perhaps especially when it doesn’t feel that way. God is always present and active working in our lives.