Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Monday Meditations.

To start the week off right, the word that we're going to be meditating on is visibility.

Have you ever felt unseen like you're pouring yourself out or building or striving and hoping,

yet it feels like you're standing in

the shadows completely unnoticed. Or maybe you're watching others step into their calling while

you wait and you're just wondering, God, have you forgotten about me? Hear me when I say this.

You are not forgotten.

You are hidden in your season.

And there is a major difference between the two.

The Bible is full of stories of men and women who spent years in obscurity waiting on promises that seemed so far out of reach, and not because they were forgotten,

but because God was preparing them for something far greater.

Here's some examples.

David, anointed king, yet hunted like a criminal.

A man with a promise over his life, forced into caves, stripped of comfort,

questioning if he would ever see the throne. But it was in those hidden years that he wrote

songs of worship. He cultivated deep dependence on God and became the man after God's own heart.

Those unseen years, the quote-unquote hidden in your season, if you will,

were the foundation of his reign. And then we have Hannah, who was longing for a son,

crying out year after year while the world kept calling her baron. And in her waiting, she was

ridiculed. She was overlooked and broken, but her prayers,

her prayers were powerful. Her prayers were not in vain, and God was shaping her for a blessing

beyond her imagination. And when Samuel was born, he didn't just fill Hannah's arms in her heart.

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