Whenever I drive north towards Louisville, I inevitably get caught up in the road construction on I-65 that is being conducted right as you cross over into Kentucky.

All over the place, you see signs that say, “Men at work.” That sign lets me know that the going might get rough for a time. We’re going to have to slow down.

Oftentimes, we need to be reminded that God is at work too. As we travel down the bumpy roads of life, facing hardships and struggles, we might wonder where God is. What is he doing?

We see destruction and pain and sorrow and begin to ask: What is his plan?

In moments like these, the testimony of the Bible serves as a sign in the middle of life construction: GOD AT WORK.

So even as planes crash into the World Trade Center: “God at Work.”

Beneath the rubble left over from the earthquake: “God at Work.”

As you’re taking your child into the hospital for chemotherapy, “God at work.”

As you bury your loved ones, “God at Work.”

As your husband walks out on you, “God at work.”

As you lose your job, “God at work.”

As you suffer through a depression, “God at work.”

You might be tempted to say, “No! I can’t believe that God is at work in the midst of this! This place is too unlikely!” 

Perhaps the disciples thought the same as Jesus was arrested and flogged and crucified.

Do you see? It is the cross that turns our expectations upside down. The most horrific injustice the world has ever seen was the means through which God accomplished his plan of redemption.

God is at work in the most unlikely of places, through the most unlikely of people. The question is not whether or not he is working. The question is this: Do we trust him?

written by Trevin Wax  © 2008 Kingdom People blog