Thoughts for another day

Oct. 16, 2013.

Today's verse: 2 Cor. 4:18. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

What is faith?  What is prayer and why do these two bring about so much blessing in our lives?  Faith is the Unseen through the seen (which is the self) and prayer further talks to the Unseen believing through the seen.  And through our Scripture today, Paul says that the seen is temporal and the unseen is eternal.  What a notion; the antagonist says…for really, if it’s not seen it doesn’t exist and can one really believe in that which is unseen…for how can you believe what isn’t?

Here’s the enigma before us…God dwells in the unseen and all His promises and blessings are unseen.  For example His healing:  If a person is healed by God, say in a prayer meeting or crusade, there was nothing seen, no hand, no potion, nothing; yet the cure is real.  On the other hand when we go to a doctor, there he is in front of us whom we can touch and feel.  He gives us the medicine which again we can touch and feel and we become whole and this too is real!  Both worked, but the cure with the pill may require more pills for a complete cure, but the cure in the unseen I’ve come to realise is complete in itself and even includes sometimes the impossible cure!  So which is greater? 

If this question were asked of me, I must confess I would say the unseen is greater.  The Bible has so many situations where we come to know of this, even that the world, the seen, was created by the unseen besides, to those who dwell in the seen realm, the unseen remains invisible.  But to those in the unseen realm, both the unseen and the seen are before them.  Moreover, the unseen is lasting; and Jesus hinted at this saying, heaven and earth (earth is seen) will pass away, but My Words (not seen) will remain!  So it means, Jesus’ unseen Word will always remain.  And because the Word is eternal, its effects are eternal.  We pray words which are not seen, but their effect is in the seen, like for example a job, a financial breakthrough, etc. So my friends, God though unseen is a far greater reality in our lives and we do well trusting in Him, than in trusting the world.