“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for.” Hebrews 11: 1-2.
In a world where seeing is believing has crept even into the Church, people believe much that isn’t true. And just as bad, they disbelieve much that is true. Satan is the Master Illusionist! We do not see his sleight of hand, so we fall for his lies – such that what we really want is … sin! Only later do we fully realize we once more took the bait and got “switched” in his shell games.
Rest assured, brothers and sisters, one day we will see sin as God does. It will be stripped of its illusions and will be utterly and eternally unappealing. May God grant us the grace, by the power of His Spirit and His Word, to help us not to wait until the next life to discover what we should have believed and disbelieved in this one.
“Most of us have become so familiar with sin that we no longer see it as a deadly monster.” Nancy Leigh DeMoss Wolgemuth.
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Truth: A Bigger View of God’s Word, Randy Alcorn, 2017, Pg 59 Harvest House.