Check the level of your faith (Part 2)
Let's start with this promise: "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope" (Jeremiah 29: 11).
By this, we understand that God has already planned a better future and hope long before our birth. This is also confirmed in Ephesians 2: 10 where Paul writes, saying that we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them in the visible world.
As we saw in the first part, we are called to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5: 7). This means that our prayers, our words, our attitude and everything we do must necessarily comply with the invisible things and not with visible things because what is seen is temporary, but the things unseen are eternal.
The Bible says that without faith it is impossible to please the Lord (Hebrews 11: 6), regardless all we can offer him.
He who has faith has the physical and spiritual eyes simultaneously but the one who has no faith has only physical eyes.
Let us take the example of the prophet Elisha and his servant Gehazi: One day, Gehazi woke up in the morning and found a crowd that surrounded the city with horses and tanks. He was very scared and spoke to his master Elisha by asking him: “Alas, my master! What shall we do? "(2 Kings 6: 15). The answer of Elisha is very interesting. He said: "Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them" (2 Kings 6: 16). But Gehazi saw no one around him. He saw the enemy and he could not see the army that Elisha spoke because Gehazi only had physical eyes but Elisha in addition to physical eyes also had spiritual eyes.
If you have faith, you are supposed to see things that ordinary people do not see as we walk by faith and not by sight. He who walks by sight can never have total peace because the world we live in is full of bad things that are very discouraging.
As Gehazi could not understand the message of his master because his view was limited in the visible world, Elisha had to pray that God opens the eyes of his servant by saying: “Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see. Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha "(2 Kings 6: 17). Gehazi was not physically blind but he was spiritually blind. He who is spiritually blind keep crying and complaining because of the problems he sees around him in the visible world but ignores what happens in the invisible world. We see that God finally opened Gehazi spiritual eyes and he could see what his master saw. To be continued in Part 3
Chris Ndikumana
