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What your eyes see does not define reality either!

Do you remember Gehazi? He saw the enemy army encamped around the camp and was afraid: “What shall we do now, my lord?” Elisha told him: “Do not be afraid. Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” Then Elisha prayed and said, “Lord, open his eyes so that he may see.” The Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he saw that the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha”, 2 Kings 6:15-17 (NIV).

Gehazi was a ‘carnal believer’ and could only see one reality: what his natural eyes could see.

Elisha, on the other hand, saw a different reality. With the eyes of faith, he glimpsed a greater army sent by God to fight on their behalf.

Job is another example. No one suffered like him on this earth, except Jesus. His pain was real, and he never denied that reality. The devil killed all his children, destroyed all his properties, ruined his entire economy, and left him without sustenance and without health. All he had left was to sit in his misery and wait. Wait for what? For the day of his deliverance, that is, the reality that only his spiritual eyes could see.

Job was left with pain, but also with hope: “All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come”, Job 14:14 (NIV). “As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see Him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!” Job 19:25-27 (NIV).

Job never denied his feelings but learned not to trust them or what his natural eyes saw, but to draw close to God. Everything was taken from him except hope. And when hope is placed in the right place, which is in God, the devil cannot stand it.

Believing, trusting, and hoping in what we do not see is more important than believing in what we do see.

“Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed!” John 20:29 (NIV).