Check the level of your faith (Part 1)
Each of us has a faith, including those who do not believe in God. Even those who do not believe in God believe in something or someone. According to the Bible, faith is defined as the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things that are not seen (Hebrews 11:1). That means that we believe in things we cannot demonstrate physically, things we cannot see with our physical eyes.
One day Jesus called Peter who stepped out of the boat and walked on water. At one point, Peter watched the wind that was strong and began to sink, but Jesus stretched out his hand to restrain him and said: "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?"(Matthew 14: 31). If Jesus said that Peter had little faith, it means that people have different levels of faith and especially that faith can GROW. The purpose of this teaching is to help you develop your faith because no one has ever reached perfection.
The Bible says that we walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5: 7). In other words, we do not depend on what we see with our physical eyes but on our spiritual eyes. A born again child of God is supposed to have spiritual eyes. These are the spiritual eyes to guide us in everything we do as the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 4: 18: "we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal"
This verse (2 Cor 4: 18) is the basis of this teaching because it is extremely important to understand that the visible things (problems we face in the reality of life) are temporary but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Some Christians do not know that we live in a world divided in two parts: the visible world and the invisible world. Everything we see in the visible world starts in the invisible world before being manifested in the visible world. This is why you can see something (a person, a gift, a situation ...) in a dream and that dream came true one year later in the visible world. The explanation is simple: The day you had the dream, the thing already existed in the invisible world but you could not see it with your physical eyes because physical eyes do not see things in the invisible world.
In the second part, we will understand that God already has a wonderful plan for us but this plan has already been accomplished in the invisible world. We must play our part to the blessings of God be transferred from the invisible world to the visible world.
To be continued.
Chris Ndikumana
