Is Seeing Believing?

by Daphne Delay

People say seeing is believing, but I beg to differ. The greatest faith any of us could possess is the ability to believe without seeing. Jesus said,

"Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed" (John 20:29).

We serve an invisible God—at least in form. None have seen the "shape" of God, yet this hasn't stopped us from loving Him. This is what makes Christianity amazing. We love and serve a God we cannot see. Peter said,
"Whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory" (1 Peter 1:8).

SALVATION BEGINS NOW

MATTHEW 6:10, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."

MATTHEW 6:9-13

We do not have to live a beggarly existence here on this earth and just wait till we all get to heaven to begin to experience the benefits of our salvation. Jesus told us to pray "thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven." In heaven, He will "wipe away all tears from our eyes" (Rev. 21:4), so here on earth we can pray and believe to receive "joy unspeakable and full of glory" (1 Pet. 1:8). 

Healing, prosperity, and all the other benefits of heaven are ours here on earth to the degree that we can believe and receive them.

It is God's will to deliver us from this present evil world. The Lord didn't save us from our sins so we could be "saved and stuck" until we go to heaven. He made provision for our success in this life as well.