Seeing the Invisible (Part 3)

Much of learning to see God's love for you comes with practicing it in daily experiences. When life happens, you'll have the choice to trust the love of God for you that isn't visible or trust the natural consequences of this world which are visible.

Quite often I have found that Christians, including myself, are absolutely willing to believe in God, but struggle to trust Him with life's realities. We believe in a God who's a spirit but sometimes live our lives like naturalists...Or said a different way: We believe God like Christians but sometimes, we trust Him like atheists.

We can live as though He's ineffective. We can live as though He's dead to our today experience. But Jesus rose from the dead to live with me in my everyday, from now until forever.

So let's do this right now: What would you ask God for if He was real? What would you ask God for if He was alive today?

Think about it for a moment. It can even be impossible. You can even not deserve it. 

Once you've decided what that desire is, put it into your left hand.

Now while holding on to this desire, remember that God already fully proved His love for you on the cross. God welcomes you as a great friend. He's not ashamed of you and he's not holding your mistakes against you. In fact, He promised to never remember your sins because your sins were placed on Jesus forever. In Him, you have perfect righteousness. He approves of you and accepts you because of Christ.

Now take God's hand with your right hand. And give him your desire with your left.

In truth, God has already decided to completely satisfy the desire you just handed Him with a good thing. It might not be exactly what we expect, but we can trust that it's the perfect thing for our desire. And we can trust that, not because of what we see visibly in front of us... and not because we even see or don't see the gift... but because He's already given us His Everything in Jesus. Jesus is always the proof that we look at.

Now do that everyday. Every worry, every care, every desire. And when we do that, we'll start finding the pieces of the puzzle we've been missing. There will be a lot more peace in our everyday experience. 

I've been jamming to this song lately... I just love the line, "not earthly confidence, it's only by your blood!" Trusting the blood will build real confidence that won't be shaken. Enjoy it friends!