“For we walk by faith and not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7).
Christianity is a walk of faith. Faith is the lifestyle of the believer. This is why all through the New Testament, with particular reference to the Epistles, there’s not a single place where the Christian is asked to have faith. Rather, the scriptures let us know that we already have faith as Christians: “…according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith” (Romans 12:3). God wouldn’t ask us to walk by faith if we didn’t already have faith.
A man can either walk by faith or by his senses. The Bible says, “They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God” (Romans 9:8). The children of the flesh are those who are ruled by their senses. Instead of walking by faith, they walk by sensory perceptions. What does it mean to walk by sensory perceptions? It simply means to walk by your senses—what you can see, hear or touch.
Man is a spirit who has a soul and lives in a body. 2 Corinthians 5:6 says, “Therefore we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.” Your body is not you; it’s the place of your abode while you’re here on earth. That’s why the Bible says, “…we are absent from the Lord” because we’re not in Heaven but here on earth. We don’t behold the Lord face to face every hour the way people in Heaven do. So how do we know He’s with us? He has told us in His Word that He’s with us always (Matthew 28:20). Therefore, we don’t have to wait to feel His presence because whether or not we feel it, He’s there with us.
Have you ever felt forsaken of God? Some people feel that way and say “Oh I don’t feel the presence of God anymore.” They are moved by their feelings, instead of relying on the Word of God.
Don’t live your life based on how you feel—your senses; live by faith. Don’t say, “I have a headache,” because you feel some discomfort in your head; refuse to accept and endorse such information! Instead, say “Though I feel a headache, I refuse to accommodate it, for I’m the healed of the Lord!” Do the same for your finances; don’t say, “I’m broke” just because there’s no money in your pocket or bank account. Instead, say, “I refuse to lack because I’m a child of God, and a joint heir with Christ.”
Prayer
Dear Father, thank you for revealing to me the integrity of your Word. Though I may not be able to feel it with my senses, I always trust it to do exactly what it says. Thank you for the glorious life of victory I’ve been called into, as a result of living by faith in your Word, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further Study
2 Cor. 4:18 “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.”
Hebrews 11:1: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
(Taken by permission from Christ Embassy Church , aka Believer’s LoveWorld Ministries , Lagos, Nigeria. www.ChristEmbassy.org )
