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Words of Life
No 33, 2022, North Queensland
Hebrews 11:1
We have all been taught of the importance to have a faith that is alive and, therefore, healthy, active, and growing. The biblical definition of faith, as above, is very clear that we should not place it in things that can be seen. Apostle Paul also linked it to hope and love or charity as the three things worthwhile in our life to give it meaning. All three are valuable because they cannot be seen. Romans 8:24, “For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?”
The word ‘substance’ means something that is strong and reliable and hope in Jesus Christ can be an anchor for our soul. Hebrews 6:19, “Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;”
By extension, nothing that can be seen can ever have the power to take them away.
The real wisdom is to know that just because something can’t be seen does not mean it does not exist. The best example that can be used is that of God as the Almighty Creator. The evidence seen in the complexity and design of so many aspects of the natural world speak of the unseen God who made them. The miracle of life, which can only arise from existing life, has no other adequate explanation than the creating from an eternal, Almighty God and is evidence irrefutable.
Together, these concepts of substance, hope, things not seen, and evidence, show us the way to grow our living faith.