When we see nothing

“Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?” - Haggai 2v3

Finally the work was done, the temple was built. For some there was great excitement over what they had done, but for those who had seen the old temple this was like nothing. It was not what they had hoped for, they felt dejected to the point of tears. “You call this a temple?” they may have asked, “This is nothing.”

The problem was that they were not seeing things from God’s point of view. They were looking at the things they could see instead of the things they could not see. Our problem too often is that we have “geovision” where we see only the things of this world.

When we are faithfully serving God there is never “nothing.” We may not see it, but God is at work. Let’s replace our geovision with Deovision where we learn to see God in all that is happening.