Here is your challenge and should you accept it, it will sometimes confuse you and test your patience and probably make you angry and frustrated and make your faith wobbly.
2 Corinthians 5:7 is really straight forward. Paul simply reminds us in the verses around it that we are God’s children; citizens of Heaven and we belong to God. We carry God’s Spirit as a deposit of that inheritance and we long to be returned to God; to where we belong. In this is the reminder that we live by ‘faith not by sight’. All the things we read in the Bible and even the things we pray for now are mostly hidden from us. When we go through struggles and we ask God to rescue us, it can often seem that NOTHING is happening! Is God even there? Does He care and is He even listening? I believe that God IS working because He is a faithful and loving Father and He is good, all the time. But, not being able to see what God is up to makes me a little crazy and challenges my faith to often embarrassing lows.
So all I can really do is trust, despite what I see around me. Paul’s direction is simple: Just hang in there and wait and trust that God is going to do what He has promised. And, until then, keep your eyes firmly fixed on God, our Rock, because let’s face it, we can’t trust ourselves now can we?