What you saw…

We will continue the tradition on the Road of Faith to journey with the one, most important person God placed in my life, my wife.

“the Lord sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”” 1 Samuel 16:7

When we met, I was far from God, but, for somehow she saw something in me that no one else saw, including myself.

My prayers in those first days together were heavily focused on thanksgiving and clear vision. I gave thanks everyday for this magnificent woman to whom God led me. God has made it crystal clear that through the years, event and even trials of our lives, God was guiding both of us along the Road of Faith toward each other. He also knew the timing of our meeting was critical. I was at a point in my life that I was probably the most open to allowing God to enter my life. I was also not long from a road of struggle and challenge unlike any before.

I still hold the other prayer in my heart. Though, her confidence and support has helped me see it in a different light. I often prayed that God would never remove His glasses from this woman’s eyes. She was seeing me through the lens of the Father’s vision. No doubt, she saw things in me that were beyond who I was at that moment.

All this comes together from God. He knew everything I would need in the coming years to keep me from breaking and more than that, to make me stronger.

I wish God would have brought us together many years earlier but I know the Road of Faith I was on had to travel down the courses it did. Anything different would have changed everything of the man she saw and the man God was making. Is making.

So, when no one saw what I was, she did. Because, she was close to God and He lended His insight to her soul to draw her to me. God gave the wisdom and faith to this fantastic woman so that she could build me up and raise me to a place that I could begin to see how God sees me.

Though I didn’t know it, the day we met is the first step on my Road of Faith with my eyes raised to see the ‘signs.’

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

God knows the heart, even hidden under the muck of sin. God knows that laying within that sinful heart rests the soul of a lion, the saint He created and intended since He thought of the person. Even if Satan blinds the soul in shame and despair, the saint resides ready to burst forth. Let the lion roar!

Look beyond the flesh and into the soul of those you love and even those you just met. You never know what vision God will give you of the man within. What if the Father lends you His Lenses that you may see the soul before you as He does? Build the soul and teach it to roar!