In a materialistic world like ours, we are tempted to conclude
that the only real things are those we experience with our five
senses. Yet "there are things we cannot see: things behind our backs
or far away and all things in the dark," said C. S. Lewis.
There is another realm of reality, just as actual, just as factual,
just as substantial as anything we see, hear, touch, taste, or smell
in this world. It exists all around us-not out there "somewhere,"
but "here." There are legions of angels helping us, for which the
world has no counter-measures (Hebrews 1:14). The psalmist David
referred to them as a force of thousands of thousands of chariots
(Psalm 68:17). We cannot see God nor His angels with our natural
eyes. But they are there, whether we see them or not. I believe
the world is filled with them. Faith is the means by which we are
able to "see" this invisible world. That is belief's true function.
Faith is to the spiritual realm what the five senses are to the
natural realm. The writer of Hebrews says that faith is "the evidence
of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). By faith we recognize the existence
of the spiritual world and learn to depend on the Lord for His help
in our daily life. Our goal, then, as George MacDonald once said,
is to "grow eyes" to see the unseen. - DHR
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Psalm 34:4-7
[4] I sought the LORD, and he answered me; he delivered me from all
my fears.
[5] Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered
with shame.
[6] This poor man called, and the LORD heard him; he saved him out
of all his troubles.
[7] The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and he
delivers them. |
½ÃÆí 34:4-7
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