Belief in the unseen

16Jun11

” The characteristic of a Christian that Peter is trying to establish here is that He believes in things he cannot see. This Christian believes in the invisible. He believes that the real world coexists with the physical world, touching this world and accessible to this world. There is no contradiction between spirit and reality. The contradiction is between spirit and matter, never between spiritual and real. So the believer accepts and believes in a real world of which God is the King, an eternal kingdom, an eternal world, a spiritual, invisible world coexisting with and touching and accessible to this world. Heaven is not so far away that we must take a jet and continue through light years of travel to get to heaven. The average Christian thinks of heaven being so far away, and only by accomodation do we sing about heaven being near and “glory coming down our souls to greet”.”

- Excerpt from Living as a Christian by A.W Tozer