Faith - Living in Another Realm
05/01/10 21:41
“By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible”. (Hebrew 11:3)
To live by faith means to live in another realm. We must overcome the temptation to limit ourselves to what is seen. As tangible and corporal as it feels to us this realm is the temporal one. Usually we live our life as if the unseen spiritual realm is the temporal one. Because we spend our life submerged in the temporal does not mean that it is the truth by which we judge everything else. Scientifically we say that we will believe what we can measure and observe and prove by trial and observation. But we are not limited to that narrow a worldview; faith moves us into the realm of the spirit, which is not measurable scientifically.
We can relate to our world and the universe through scientific observation too. In Genesis God gave man the responsibility to care for and subdue the earth. He did not revoke this command when man sinned. So I am not saying that we should disregard the material realm as unimportant. That would be doing the same as the error I am trying to correct. It is essential that we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command. The more we explore it and see the vastness of the universe the greater our faith should be. If God is this abundant with that which is temporal, how abundant will He be with us?
Faith is the ability to see beyond the natural realm. Faith is the only way we can accept that the universe was formed at God’s command. Faith is the medium through which we understand there is more to life than what we can see. Faith believes that God can speak and creation happens. His voice that is equated in scripture with the roaring of waterfalls and the rumble of thunder is obviously loud enough to cause a big bang. He spoke and the universe happened. The writer of Hebrews quotes Psalm 144 in chapter two when he says: “What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honour and put everything under his feet.”
We have become the apple of His eye, the centre of His attention. But until we believe in faith we can’t see Him. All the evidence may point to Him but without faith you form a very low and diminished concept of God and His influence in your world. Faith reverses that! We need to increase in faith and that is done only through exercising it. We receive the gift of faith for salvation and within that gift is the spiritual DNA of God. As a child is formed in the womb with the DNA to be a mature adult she must grow to fulfil the pattern within her. So it is with us spiritually. We received the divine gift of faith leading us into salvation resulting in a new birth. We have the fullness of Christ’s spiritual DNA within us. To increase and grow to our full potential we must exercise our faith. That brings us to maturity as a spiritual person. For that not to be stunted we need to embrace God’s all-powerful being. He commanded and the universe came into being. The visible made out of that which is invisible to our naked eye.
To live by faith means to live in another realm. We must overcome the temptation to limit ourselves to what is seen. As tangible and corporal as it feels to us this realm is the temporal one. Usually we live our life as if the unseen spiritual realm is the temporal one. Because we spend our life submerged in the temporal does not mean that it is the truth by which we judge everything else. Scientifically we say that we will believe what we can measure and observe and prove by trial and observation. But we are not limited to that narrow a worldview; faith moves us into the realm of the spirit, which is not measurable scientifically.
We can relate to our world and the universe through scientific observation too. In Genesis God gave man the responsibility to care for and subdue the earth. He did not revoke this command when man sinned. So I am not saying that we should disregard the material realm as unimportant. That would be doing the same as the error I am trying to correct. It is essential that we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command. The more we explore it and see the vastness of the universe the greater our faith should be. If God is this abundant with that which is temporal, how abundant will He be with us?
Faith is the ability to see beyond the natural realm. Faith is the only way we can accept that the universe was formed at God’s command. Faith is the medium through which we understand there is more to life than what we can see. Faith believes that God can speak and creation happens. His voice that is equated in scripture with the roaring of waterfalls and the rumble of thunder is obviously loud enough to cause a big bang. He spoke and the universe happened. The writer of Hebrews quotes Psalm 144 in chapter two when he says: “What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honour and put everything under his feet.”
We have become the apple of His eye, the centre of His attention. But until we believe in faith we can’t see Him. All the evidence may point to Him but without faith you form a very low and diminished concept of God and His influence in your world. Faith reverses that! We need to increase in faith and that is done only through exercising it. We receive the gift of faith for salvation and within that gift is the spiritual DNA of God. As a child is formed in the womb with the DNA to be a mature adult she must grow to fulfil the pattern within her. So it is with us spiritually. We received the divine gift of faith leading us into salvation resulting in a new birth. We have the fullness of Christ’s spiritual DNA within us. To increase and grow to our full potential we must exercise our faith. That brings us to maturity as a spiritual person. For that not to be stunted we need to embrace God’s all-powerful being. He commanded and the universe came into being. The visible made out of that which is invisible to our naked eye.
