Once a year, my daughters and I fly to New York to visit family. Of course, we book a row of three seats, and the prized window seat has never lost its charm after all these years. The girls take turns—one on the way there, the other on the way back—which always leaves me in the middle. I don’t mind. Their joy is worth it. They like looking out at the bodies of water, clouds, and even the occasional rainbow, while I usually just lean in for quick glimpses.
It really made me think that life often feels like the middle seat, doesn’t it? Our view is limited with nothing spectacular in sight. But isn’t that exactly how faith works? We don’t always get the window seat. We don’t always see the big picture or the beauty of what lies ahead. Yet God calls us to trust Him anyway.
Paul reminds us of this in 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NLT): “For we live by believing and not by seeing.”
Faith is trusting that there’s a breathtaking view beyond what we can see right now. Faith is believing that God has it all worked out, even if all we see is the back of the seat in front of us. Faith sustains us in the middle seat. One day, God will give us the full view—but until then, the middle seat is where faith grows.
My Light for My Lord 