By: Ivy Veysey of the Bekevar Presbyterian Church

We live much in a “hands on” world. We say, “seeing is believing,”- but in the world of faith, “believing is seeing.” Unfortunately, many times we really do believe the first over the second, but we were not made to act and think this way.

When the farmer plants the seed in the spring, he has reason to believe there will be growth and crop, because he believes in the viability of the seed. He also believes that the crop will reproduce what he planted, for he understands the concept of a seed reproducing its kind. And change in this normal procedure is the result of abnormal conditions.

Just because faith is intangible, invisible, does not negate the reality of it, but it does increase the mystery of it. To many, trusting what we cannot see seems contrary to reason, but we take advantage of mysteries in many ways, and in faith we do the same thing, we take advantage of the mystery of that which we cannot see, but find to be totally real within ourselves and the world around us.

One writer put it this way: “Faith is just believing what God says He will do.”

The dictionary definition of faith is, “spiritual apprehension of divine truth apart from proof,” but the concept of proof may need to be reconsidered, and it is not only divine truth that is involved in a life of faith. Life is a path of faith in all its aspects, whether or not we stop to think of it that way.

What I’m trying to say is that not all things need to be tangible to be real. We are created to accept some things by faith (believing) instead of feeling (touching) or seeing. We do not have only five senses. We have the potential for a dynamic sixth sense - faith - and this increases by its use.

God bless you all and have a great weekend and coming week.