Yesterday I wrote about the struggle to make coffee before having had that first cup of morning coffee, in my post Making Coffee.
There are many tasks that are difficult to accomplish without first having gotten to the main event.
It can be difficult to get a job without having experience.
It can be difficult to make a recipe when you have never tasted the food it makes.
It can be difficult to play football against a team you have no prior experience competing against.
Such is the same when it comes to faith in a living God.
To believe in the existence of, in the power of, the living God, one needs to have faith in what is unseen, not experienced.
Many people say, “if I could only see God, or see Him perform a miracle, then I would have faith in Him.”
Faith does not work that way!
Hebrews 11:1 tells us, “faith is the assurance that what we hope for will come about and the certainty that what we cannot see exists.” We cannot have that assurance, that certainty in God without first going through the leap of faith to believe what we can only hope for, what we cannot even see.
It would be so much easier to believe in God if He would just simply show Himself to us first. But we must believe first (faith), and then we will get to see. The apostle Paul said, “for we live by believing and not by seeing” (2 Corinthians 5:7).
faith first
sight second
Paul continues his focus on faith and sight in Romans (8:24) “for in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?”
Faith breeds hope … faith breeds trust …
… faith before sight …
Coffee would be easier to prepare in the morning if only we could have a cup first.
But …
make coffee before taste
Faith would be easier if we only got to see God, face to face.
But …
faith before sight.
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