When you read words that are effective in describing something, you can picture it in your imagination. \u201cSee ye the word of the LORD\u201d (Jeremiah 2:31). This \u201cseeing\u201d is not simply letters on a page. God is asking us to see the story\u2014His history with us\u2014realities our physical eyes cannot see.<\/p>\n
Recall Moses\u2019 story, summarized in Hebrews 11:27. He \u201cendured, as seeing Him who is invisible.\u201d He had evidence for God, but he had not yet seen God, and thus it was \u201cby faith\u201d he saw Him, and endured the coming diversions of his mission. Those evidences that come to us from the past\u2014others\u2019 stories and our own\u2014give us the picture of God that we need.<\/p>\n
Paul described it. \u201cFight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life\u201d (1 Timothy 6:12). Why is it a fight? Because we are all immersed in a \u201cbig fight\u201d\u2014what we call the great controversy that began over rejecting the evidence. The word \u201cfight\u201d actually comes from the idea of being led together for a contest. One might think he can avoid the fight by going off on his own. But the conflict is especially internal! (Romans 7:17-20). The angels also had the same basic challenge at a different level. There were things they could not \u201csee,\u201d so they had to \u201csee… the word of the LORD.\u201d<\/p>\n
There were things they could not \u201csee,\u201d so they had to \u201csee… the word of the LORD.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
However, there is a picture, a part of the story that can draw us into and through the unavoidable fight in a way to assure victory, so we can \u201clay hold on eternal life.\u201d \u201cLet the mind\u2019s eye be directed to \u2018the Lamb of God…\u2019\u201d (Christ\u2019s Object Lessons<\/em>, p. 250). Again, \u201cThe glory of God is to be kept before the mind\u2019s eye…\u201d (Review and Herald<\/em>, May 17, 1898). The picture for faith to see continually is the one God Himself has projected in Christ throughout Scripture.<\/p>\n
\u201cFaith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God\u201d (Romans 10:17). We are able to walk<\/em> by faith because we can see what we need to. \u201cAll who sincerely believe that the living oracles of God mean just what they say, will act that faith\u201d (Review and Herald<\/em>, May 17, 1898).<\/p>\n
In His word, God conveys the pictures we need to see, His faith working by love, in practical settings, extremely varied. As we dwell on these pictures of what He\u2019s like and how He functions, and we agree<\/em>, we are empowered to respond in kind\u2014\u201dfrom faith to faith\u201d\u2014literally \u201cout of faith into faith\u201d (Roman 1:17). We then will \u201cwalk in the light, as He is in the light\u201d (1 John 1:7). Praise God for His faith revealed through His Word!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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