Look at your circumstances through eyes of faith, not eyes of sight…

Feelings, emotions, thoughts which come crowding in when you look at your circumstances through your own understanding – will be against living by faith.  What you see with your eyes is not walking by faith and trusting the Lord to work in your behalf.

Walking by faith is hard!

Walking by faith will not look at the circumstances of the moment.

Walking by faith is continuing to trust in the living God.

No matter what your situation “looks like” – continue to live and walk by faith in God.

(NASB) Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”

The NIV translation states: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”

The Amplified Bible gives another way to express the same truth: faith perceives as a real fact what is not revealed to the five senses.

Consider Jacob – for about fourteen years he believed his favorite son, Joseph, was dead… it wasn’t so.  His immediate circumstances were hard.  There was a severe famine and grain needed to be bought in Egypt.  Simeon was in prison in Egypt until his father’s youngest son, Benjamin, came to Egypt to be seen by “the man” in charge of selling grain.

Finally, the father relented… Benjamin would go with the ten older brothers to Egypt.  When Jacob-Israel accepted the facts, he then told his sons to take “the man” some of their best products.
(Genesis 43:1-13)

Then he revealed his resignation to events and circumstances.
(NASB) Genesis 43:14 “and may God Almighty grant you compassion in the sight of the man, so that he will release to you your other brother and Benjamin.  And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

Jacob lived with his sorrow, daily.

Living by faith may not relieve the sorrow
but it will give hope for today and tomorrow.

~ Take it to heart ~

Walk by faith in the living God and not by what you “see.”