When Jesus was on this earth, healing all who came to Him, the people were in His physical presence. They could physically see, hear, and touch Him. In most of Jesus’ healings in the Word, people believed they were healed when they sensed it. Only the Centurion (Matthew 8:10) and the Canaanite woman (Matthew 15:18) exhibited a level of faith that went beyond what could be seen or felt.
“Because you have seen Me, you have believed,” Jesus told Thomas after he had seen and touched his scars. “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29).
We don’t have a physical Jesus we can see and touch, but we do have the Holy Spirit to reveal Him to us. Our faith cannot relate to what we sense, but it can relate to the Word. We must approach the Word just as the Centurion and Canaanite woman approached Jesus—with a faith that believed beyond their senses.
One of the most difficult aspects of our Christian life can be trusting God’s Word rather than our senses. If we truly believe that His words are Spirit and life (John 6:63), then we must come to the place where we honor His Word over what we physically sense.
Faith is real. It is the substance and evidence of things that can’t be seen but do exist (Hebrews 11:1). They exist in God’s spiritual realm, which we cannot perceive with our five senses. True faith believes more in the substance of spiritual things in God’s realm than in things that are sensed in the natural realm.
It is illogical to think that something doesn’t really exist because we can’t see it. I have a wireless modem. I can’t see the wireless signal, but it exists. All I have to do to prove it is real is turn on my cell phone, smart TV, or laptop. And then I have proof that something exists beyond what I see. It just exists in a realm that I can’t perceive with my five senses.
In the same way, everything Jesus provided through His finished work of grace exists in a spiritual realm that we can’t perceive with our five senses. We must believe the things of God are just as real as what we experience in our natural lives. Faith takes what is already true in the spiritual realm and receives it in the natural.
“But these are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you might have life through his name” (John 20:31)
That which is written in the Word carries the same life and power as Jesus in the flesh. When we choose to believe what is written, we have the same life and power through His name. Trusting in our senses to prove God’s truth profits us nothing (John 6:63). Waiting for the flesh to feel good before deciding if God’s Word is true is walking by sight and not by faith.
Faith sees the unseen. If you have to see or feel something to believe it is true, then that is not faith. Those who have not seen but have believed are blessed with His promises.
Choose to believe what is written in the Word for you and about you. Don’t allow what you sense in this life to become a monument. Believe in the substance of the spiritual truths of God. His Word is His assurance, vow, and guaranty that His promises are true. He has sent the Word to save, heal, deliver, and manifest in us. Let what you envision in your heart agree with Jesus, and not the feelings and circumstances of the moment you are in right now.
“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18).
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