That’s what change looks like from the outside. Everything’s the same for a while, and then BOOM everything has changed. But that’s not how it looks underneath.

If you could see beneath the surface, you’d se thousands — maybe millions — of minute changes, like when the ocean current wears away the shore over time. Minute to minute, day to day, it looks the same, but in 10 years it won’t look the same.

Day after day, you look and feel the same, but one day you will look back at who you are now and see the difference. You will see what the unseen hand of God has been up to all that time.

If you trust in only what you can see, you will grow frustrated and lose faith. You won’t see God or what He’s doing. You will only see part of the picture, like the tip of the iceberg. But what’s important is what’s underneath and unseen.

That’s why the old adage says about God that when you can’t see His hand trust His heart. Trust that He is at work even when you can’t see it and can’t feel it. Then the frustration turns to faith and the restlessness turns into peace.