What on earth is He doing?
So says the sick person, the rejected applicant, the abused partner and every other person who has experienced disappointment in God. What are you doing? Where are you when I need you?
JEREMIAH 1
Here is the tremendous call from God to the prophet and after an initial few uncertain responses from Jeremiah God presents him with his first vision.
What did he see? Was it thunder and lightning representing God’s judgment? Was it multitudes coming to God in worship showing he would be successful in ministry? What did he see? He saw a tree branch. He saw more than that though. He was seeing a branch of an almond tree, v11.
Some people only see what is dying? They only see the ordinary, a branch. But those that God uses are the ones who are able to see more than that. We need to be able to see all that is truly before us. For when we are able to do that then we will be able to see what on earth He is doing!
Almond means ‘watching’ and God showed the prophet the tree so he could see that He was watching over Jeremiah’s world.
In Jeremiahs world it looked like God was not alive in it. God was saying I am. He was active within it. He was carrying out His purposes in it, v12.
The circumstances of your world may suggest God is not here. But look again. Learn to see all that you can see in the circumstance. You can see more than a branch. You can see a God who is watching over you, who has spoken His word into your life and who will accomplish that word through your life.
Missions Paul 