THE INVISIBLE
By Ada Brownell
Amazing unseen things happened at my conception. Then after
birth, unnoticed activity took place in my brain as I grew. I learned to speak
English. I decided I didn’t like hominy ‘cause they used lye to make it. Fear
of flogging roosters stirred in my skinny breast, and panic disturbed my sleep
because a sibling told me Indians used to roam on our farm.
I wasn’t much more than a toddler when I learned Jesus loved
me and had a wonderful plan for my life. From a large impoverished family and a
freckled-faced redhead, when I started school, classmates often teased me. Yet,
I smiled inside where they couldn’t see because I had a secret. Jesus loved me!
I’d never seen Jesus, but when I gave my heart to Him, I
knew He is real. The invisible has been much of my reality. I saw people in our
family healed, and observed other answers to prayer and miracles. I breathed invisible
air, felt invisible wind, planted seeds with invisible life, and ate eggs with God’s
invisible design in them to make a live chicken, if fertilized. I could go on
and on.
God is teaching me more about the invisible. No, not about
the evil out there, but the wondrous power of God available.
In Hebrews 11, the Faith Chapter, we’re told, “Now faith is
being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see... By faith we
understand that the universe was formed at God’s command so that what is seen
was not made out of what was visible” (1,3).
In awe, I think about the power that created the universe. Power more amazing than man can imagine, and
yet I can have a portion of that power. Isaiah wrote, “He gives power to the
weak, and to those who have no might he increases strength.” “God has not given
us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind” (2 Timothy
1:7).
Acts 1:8 says, “You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost
comes upon you and you shall be my witnesses.”
The same power that created the universe will abide in me to
accomplish things not seen, such as love and redemption. Invisible, but
amazing.
©Copyright Ada Brownell April 2014
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