Parable in a Car Wash

Whatever dark tunnel we may be called upon to travel through, God has been there. 

Whatever deep waters seem about to drown us, He has traversed. 

Faith is not merely "feeling good about God" but a conscious choice, even in the absence of feelings or external encouragements, to obey His Word when He says, "Trust Me." 

This choice has nothing to do with mood but is a deliberate act of laying hold on the character of God whom circumstances never change.

Does He love us? No, no, no is what our circumstances seem to say. 

We cannot deduce the fact of His unchanging love from the evidence we see around us. Things are a mess. 

Yet to turn our eyes back to the Cross of Calvary is to see the irrefutable proof that has stood all the tests of the ages: 

"It is by this that we know what love is: that Christ laid down his life for us." (1 John 3:16).

We are all little Walters to God. 

He knows the necessity of the "car wash," the dark passages of every human life, but He is in the car! 

The outcome will be most glorious.

                                      - Elisabeth Elliot