THE ICEBERG

THE ICEBERG 

The title already highlights what I’m about to say. An iceberg. I don’t really remember the movie titanic but what I remember is the ship crushed into an iceberg. That, I can’t forget. We all know that an iceberg doesn’t fully show itself on water. You can see the ice showing but can you see what’s under it? No. That’s why the saying is always “the tip of an iceberg”. Tip of it means you see it but you don’t completely see it all. This blog will be a straight forward one. 

Just like how we can see a person but we cannot see what is inside of them. Let me branch this into nursing. As a student, I get to see surgeries take place and when I go and I see someone cut open and I see what’s inside them I’m always like “Wow”. This might sound silly but in school teachers always draw the heart and the other organs and each has its own colour. Some of the organs are green and blue so even though I knew it might hit be the case, I always wish the organs are colourful so let me say this when I see all the organs looking red I get kinda disappointed. It’s silly but “hey, a girl can wish”. Anyways, back to the main point. You always see the outside of people, you don’t get to see the inside. If someone is smiling, you don’t know if inside their hurting. You don’t see the whole picture of what’s happening with every individual. 

If God showed you how everything will go, you will say “okay I know where this is going”, let me either chill and relax or let me rush into it quickly. There is a time and season for everything. What God is showing you today isn’t just it. There is more, you just can’t see it. All that sorrow now isn’t the end. Why? Because we are living in an iceberg state. God is showing you one thing now but under the rest of the iceberg, there is better. You don’t need to see it all to believe that there is a greater thing for you. As long as you believe in Jeremiah 29:11 (“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope”), you just know that the side of the iceberg that isn’t showing has something better. Isaiah 55: 8-9 says that “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

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There is more. We just cannot see it. We cannot imagine it. It is bigger and better than what we think. God will reveal it to slower but surely. Be happen in your iceberg stage. Have that faith that “okay I’m seeing this now but this is just the tip”. There’s more I assure you. This isn’t it. Your sorrow is just a phase, joy comes in the morning. God is good and faithful. Trust in the Lord, let him take control, and you will never regret it. God bless you. 

Prayer: Heavenly Father, we thank you for everything. Just as we don’t see it all, we know you see it and you have planned it all and it is good. As we are just seeing the tip, let’s not lose faith. Strengthen all of us to always remember there is more and there is better. We thank you for all you have done, we praise your name in Jesus name we pray, amen.