So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18 This verse seems to suggest we do the impossible. How can we see the unseen?
We can’t, not with our natural eyes. We are asked to look beyond what we can naturally see. We are called to “see” with eyes of faith. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1. God wants us to place our hope in what we can’t see, because what we can’t see is of eternal significance. What fills our natural eyes is not.
This is not to say that in the natural world there are things that energize our faith. In the natural beauty around us we can “see” the magnificence of the glory of God who is otherwise invisible. In the warmth of feeling that rises in us when we hold a loved one or see them happy, we get a hint of a God who loves us in ways we can not comprehend.
Sadly these glimpse of glory are fleeting. In Corinthians we are called to change that. We are to “fix” our eyes on the unseen. We are to place our hope in what we can know, even if we can’t see.
How glorious the eternal must be.
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