It was there all the time.  I just didn’t see it, even though I looked and looked.  BBQ sauce.  I know – not a big deal; but I love BBQ sauce.  For a least a month (maybe a little longer), there have been several times when I wanted BBQ sauce for a sandwich or some meat I was eating.  I scoured the refrigerator every time and came up empty every time.  And I really looked hard.  Really.  I mentioned to Tina that we needed to buy some, and we both kept forgetting.  Well, a few days ago I had a taste for a sandwich made from a couple of thin slices of elk steak my neighbor had given me, and BBQ sauce would be the perfect topping.  I don’t know why, but I decided to look again.  And there it was.  A half-full bottle of sauce.  Bottom rack of the door, towards the left side, kind of hidden behind something else.  It made my day.  And my sandwich!  Then I thought about this: aren’t there times when we feel like that about God?  No matter how hard we look, we don’t see Him.  For whatever reason, it’s as if He’s not there.  In fact, Job felt that way, too.  In Job 23 he says, “Behold, I go forward, but He is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive Him: On the left hand, where He doth work, but I cannot behold Him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him.”  Perhaps with what you’re facing right now, you can say a hearty “Amen” to Job’s words.  But after it was all said and done with Job’s trial, he said this in 42:5: “I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth Thee.”  In other words, “God, you were there all the time.”  He was for Job.  And He is for you.