The visible-invisible interface

Uni-verse 226/10,000 For better through verse John 20 v 29
Joh 20:29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

The world operates on the principle," First see and then believe" or Seeing is believing. This is the conditioning that human experience and education subjects every individual to. People who doubt the Word of God continue like the apostle Thomas to insist on seeing first before believing, leaving themselves spiritually impowerished and handicapped. All the mysteries of life and death, the truths about God and the things of God hinge on the interface between the visible and the invisible. The Kingdom of God operates on the principle of " Believing is seeing" or one must first believe and then one will see. Belief is the inner eye through which we can percieve and experience the love of God.

Belief is the deepest level of one's psyche or soul. Belief affects our thoughts, emotions, speech, decisions, efforts and results. When we believe in Christ, our thoughts, emotions, speech, decisions, efforts and results will be blessed. We connect with God through prayer, meditation and the Word at the deepest, most personal or intimate level and He becomes real, more real than the things we can perceive or see. The results are there for everyone to see- what was formerly invisible will become visible in our lives. Many educated and so called intellectual people pride themselves on their commitment to rationalism and empiricism. What they need to realize is a truth that an evangelist once told me," The real world is the spiritual world. What we see around are only the props. If things are to happen in the physical world, it needs to first happen in the spiritual world and then it gets reflected here." In short, if we want to change things in our lives, our families, our cities, our societies, our nations or the world, we need to first change from disbelief to belief. Our conception of God makes way to our experience of God and His attributes.

It pleases God when we trust Him implicity and explicitly without expecting any external evidence or sign or proof. It is the ultimate test of faithfulness when we remain faithful to Him even though He is not visible, even though we cannot touch Him or feel Him. But, we do experience His touch in different ways and different areas and times of our lives.Once we believe, He shows us signs that His presence is near, that His Word is true and He is true to every word in it. We are freed from the curse of thinking that only what we experience through our senses is true and so are blessed. Our minds, emotions and our imagination freed from the necessity of being merely moored to the ground begins to soar upwards.

Prateep V Philip