With Eyes of Faith

For those who follow the Lord, everyday, without exception, we are confronted with something new and powerful. It is like when we were kids, and we were excited waiting the next day because of our birthday, Christmas, or vacations. We knew that there was something good for us. God says in His word that “His mercies are new every morning” (Lamentations 3:22-23.)
Oh, but this gift that God puts in our hands every morning comes wrapped and packaged directly from the throne of grace, and sometimes, packaged very tightly. Sometimes it doesn´t even look like what we are waiting for and even its appearance is unpleasant, at least at a first glance. That is why god wants us to see things with eyes of faith: assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)



Do you have something for me, Lord? That is not the right question. God does not fail nor lie. God´s mercies are ready everyday: “Certainly, goodness and mercy will stay close to me all the days of my life, and I will remain in the LORD'S house for days without end.” The question we should be asking has more to do with the second part of this verse from Psalm 23: What do You want from me, Lord, so I can be in your presence and live in Your house every day?



“Yeah!” We would say while opening our presents in our birthday party. This is the way to open the package: With the eyes of a boy or girl we should receive what God has for us since in reality they are wonderful and eternal treasures. The circumstances and challenges that God lays in our lives everyday are mercies from Him, which have primarily, along with other purposes, that our character is molded according to the image of Lord Jesus, and that we bless others along the way. What God deposits in our hands everyday has its weight worth in gold! They are eternal treasures that won´t be destroyed. The treasures that stay in the world are perishable and temporary. To faithfully accept what God presents to us every day will determine the reward we will receive in eternity. In the second epistle of the apostle John, verse 8, we find a warning: “Look to yourselves, so that we may not lose those things which we worked out, but that we may receive a full reward.” We should be alert of being loyal servants of God every day.



To accept these challenges, as difficult and complicated as they can be, will make us use our faith, which is pleasant to God. It is very different to say that we have faith in God and just stand to actually walk ahead even if it seems that we are facing a storm or a dead end. The Lord tells us in Hebrews 10:38, “Now, "the Just shall live by faith. But if he draws back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him." He also says in James 2:26: “…so faith without works is dead also. “



Let us accept what God presents to us every day, being complicated tests, terrible problems, even attack from the enemy. Everything is permitted by God and it is sealed with the purpose of gloriously transforming our character and letting us serve Him. Lets us the weapons God has armed us with, His word, to resist the first blow, go after Him, and please Him by telling Him that we depend on Him and not on the circumstances we are facing. Let us see with the eyes of a kid that is opening a gift…with faithful eyes.