THINGS NOT SEEN
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The value and existence of blessings are not to be determined by what we see, but rather by what we cannot see. Out of the unseen, the blessings of God come forth. Here we see Jesus preached a great message in Matthew 5, where HE plainly gives us this foundational truth when HE taught, “Blessed are the poor in spirit“. The spirit of lowliness is the unseen catalyst for God’s blessings. In our flesh, we will look for the outward appearance of good and God’s blessings and when it is not found, we can quickly be overcome with hopelessness. In my life, I have learned it’s the very things that are seen that can cause us to miss the blessings that come only from the unseen. It’s the unseen that God sets HIS gaze upon in order that HE might establish what will be seen in the distant future. The truth is, our eyes will deceive us almost every time.
The Lord longs to give us eyes of faith; eyes that look beyond the natural and see the spiritual Hand of God in every phase of our life. The world around us will change and is unstable, but the things that cannot be moved will be those things that the natural eye may never see this side of Heaven, yet is the anchor of the soul. Hallelujah! We cannot explain such mysteries, but one thing we can do, is choose to lift our eyes away from all earthly trials and refuse to seek understanding or answers for them. When we come to this place, God can open the eyes of our understanding inwardly. I know sometimes this is hard to grasp, but this is God! HIS ways are not our ways because they are much higher and they are perfect; HIS ways are much greater than one could ever imagine, but we must trust HIM without boundaries.
When we reach this place where our faith emerges and grows, there are times that we can catch a glimpse of that unseen hand orchestrating our life. We are not able explain it, we just know in our heart that God is moving. My friend that is FAITH! The Kingdom of God is discovered and pursued by faith and faith alone, never with the eyes! God’s greatest blessings are received from those points in life where we see absolutely nothing, having no assurances of certain outcomes, no answers to our questions and no explanations given. This is the ideal spot for God to begin digging into the inner recesses of our beings to cultivate a deeper trust between HIM and HIS child. Our intimacy with the Lord is birthed in pain, trials, and the hard places in life. It’s through the unexplainable that God will explain who HE is to us and in that marvelous revelation, we will discover who we are to HIM! My Christian friend, do you long for more of God? Then close your eyes of reasoning and logic and let go of the need to understand. The Lord will disclose those hidden things to us as we find ourselves living in the land of the unseen! Thank God there is coming a day we are going to meet Jesus face to face and in that triumphant day, we will stand as living proof that the poor in spirit are rich beyond measure!
Bro. Lawrence Longworth Isaiah 61:1 “the opening of the prison to them that are bound;”
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