SEEING THE UNSEEN

GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS

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Seeing the Unseen

Read:  Psalm 34:4-7

The angel of the Lord encamps all around those

who fear Him, and delivers them.  Psalm 34:7

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 wee:  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

At times our fears may loom so large,

We long for proof that God is near;

It’s then our Father says to us.

“Have faith, My child, and do not fear.” -DJD

Faith sees things that are out of sight.