What's happening?

I have noticed a common lament among the people I know- I don't understand what God is doing! So many things are happening in the lives of people that don't seem to make any sense and it is hard to see how God is working when just getting through the day seems overwhelming. We so want to understand and we think if He would just tell us what He is doing or when the breakthrough is coming- then we could hang on, then we could have faith. John 2 verse 22 completely disproves this theory.
Jesus has just turned water to wine and now He's told everyone He can rebuild the temple in 3 days. Wow. This inevitably brings some questions. But the verse after these is what is so interesting. It says after He was raised from the dead , the disciples remembered what He had said- "THEN they believed the Scripture and the words Jesus had spoken." (emphasis mine)
He told them right then and there what He was planning to do but they couldn't comprehend what He was telling them. They didn't get it until he went to the Cross and rose from the dead. I would venture to say that until we go through the death- of whatever it may be we have to die to...our expectations, our ambitions, our desires...we are unable to understand what He is doing. We usually have too much of our own stuff in the way to see where God is going with his stuff. But when we look back we see, THEN we believe.
I think this is beautifully illustrated when Moses asked to see God's glory. You know the story- God passes by and Moses can't see God's face and live but he gets a glimpse of God's back.
We usually can't see where God is, but we can always tell where He's been! True for Moses, true for the disciples, and still true for us. We can't comprehend what His plan is in our situations but if we let Him have His way with us through the death- we will see the resurrection- we will see where He has been. And it has been with us and for us all along.