Check the level of your faith (Part 3)
We all need to see what happens in the invisible world otherwise we will never be satisfied because the physical world is filled with problems and imperfections. If you see someone complaining or crying, it is because the visible world shows him unpleasant things and the devil takes the opportunity to convince him that God has forsaken him. What the devil does not want you to discover is that God has the solution for your problem because the solution is in the invisible world. Whoever complains ignores that murmurs and complains block the materialization of divine blessings that are still in the invisible world.
In writing to the Ephesians, Paul said, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ" (Ephesians 1: 3). We see that God has blessed us with spiritual blessings in heavenly places i.e. in the invisible world. Instead of crying and being discouraged, you must rather praise God for his greatness and thank him because he has already provided a solution for your problem ... I will talk about it later.
Let us go back to the story of Elisha and Gehazi. In the second part, we saw that God answered the prayer of Elisha because He opened Gehazi’s spiritual eyes so that he could see what was going on in the invisible world. Just after the answer to the prayer, Elisha prayed another prayer that surprised me: He asked God to strike all the Syrians with blindness and God has also granted that one (2 Kings 6: 18). This means that not only the Syrians did not see what was going on in the invisible world but after the prayer of Elisha, they could not even see what was happening in the visible world.
In the next verse (2 Kings 6: 19), it is said that Elisha led them to Samaria. Try to imagine the scene: hundreds of armed men on horses but all became blind and they had to follow one man (Elisha). I do not know how he managed but I guess they had to line up one after the other and follow Elisha who could see in the visible and invisible world at the same time. He led them to the king of Israel, but since they were very weak because of blindness, Elisha decided not to do them any harm and asked the king of Israel to feed them and they returned them to their Master in Syria. What is interesting is that in verse 23 (2 Kings 6: 23), it says that Syrian troops never returned to the territory of Israel.
What lesson can we learn from this? The children of God, born again, are supposed to drive or guide the unbelievers (people who are not saved) to the truth because believers are supposed to see what happens in the invisible world. It is shocking to see children of God or even the servants of God who go begging up to the unbelievers when things go wrong. Sometimes the pagans mock the children of God because of their attitude.
In the fourth part, I will show you five ways by which we can check the level of our faith.
Chris Ndikumana
