Not by sight

What is faith? I know most of you if I asked that question within just seconds you would have an answer, a darn good one at that. We know what to say we know all the right words, the right things but does our heart believe it? 2nd Corinthians 5:7 says "For we live by faith, not by sight." How many of us as we are reading this are anxious, fearful or stressed about something? So many people have sleepless nights or have depression and things like that. It is not a stretch to say that fear drives so much of our society. Did you know that the command given most in the bible is fear not? God knew we would struggle here and it is still very much alive and relevant today. God calls us to look forward and move forward, even if we do not understand what is about to come. 2nd Corinthians 4:18 says "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." Sometimes this is so hard to grasp. I believe to often we think faith is something that will just happen. We just sit back and hope that it happens. We need to STAND up and fight for those things unseen, as we press forward the heart and the belief will come. The true treasures lay in what we cannot see and what we do not know. Romans 8:24 says "For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no longer hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?" Isn't that what it is all about? Having hope in a broken rundown world, a world full of unknowns and uncertainties? If we had all the answers and new the whole story we could do everything on our own. Where is the Glory in that? God wants us to lean on him, trust him, so that we can bring him Glory and in the process advance his kingdom. Where does your hope lay?