Weekly Reflection - Grasshoppers

I don’t know about where you live, but in our area the grasshoppers are THICK this year.

They don’t seem to move around all that much until someone or something gets near them, and then suddenly they are flying all over the place. Their back legs function as tiny catapults and it astounds me how far they can project their little bodies. Each new landing spot could find them on any number of places including the bushes, concrete, tables, chairs, window screens, grass, rocks, fence, trees, etc.… To these grasshoppers, every hop is a whole new world and environment, all in my small backyard.

My daughter’s dog loves to engage with these funny looking critters. He will set his sights on one and get close enough for the grasshopper to move and then the dog follows it around, his head jerking around every which way to track it. Sometimes the dog will put the grasshopper in his mouth and carry it to the grass and get up close and personal with it. From the dog’s view he doesn’t have to do much to follow the grasshopper around. He can see everything from his larger size and vantage point.

It makes me think about how God must see things in comparison to how we see them. We are like the grasshoppers, often making big leaps and finding ourselves in the complete unknown, yet God sees it all. He is there before, during and after each step we make. Sometimes we may feel like there is a way out, but maybe that is just God picking us up and laying us gently in the grass to protect us. I know I may not be able to see the big picture, but I can take comfort in a God who does.

What are some unknowns in your life that you are currently facing?

Can you take comfort that God knows the outcome, even when you don’t?

Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. 1 Corinthians 13:12 (New Living Translation)