In my first post about faith, we talked about how faith involves 3 ingredients – knowledge, belief, and trust. Faith begins with hearing about God through the Bible. Then the mind goes on to believe that this knowledge is true. And then we place our trust in Christ as our Savior.

There are a lot of definitions of faith and a lot of things to think about. Charles Spurgeon explains in his sermons that faith can be thought of as the eye of the soul. That is what I am going to write about in this post. Faith is your spiritual vision. By faith, you see the unseen. You believe that what is invisible to you now is real; and that you will see it visibly in heaven.

Your physical eye is the eye of the body. It sees what is visible to the human eye – people, trees, cars, etc.

Faith is the eye of the soul. It sees what is invisible to the human eye – God, the angels, the saints in heaven, the New Jerusalem.

So, we have faith in what God has said. We believe that what He has said is true. We believe that He exists and that there is a heavenly kingdom where He has prepared a place for us to live with Him forever. And with an eye of faith we see it. How does that work?

Spurgeon explains that it is important for us to remember that when you have faith, you are believing that what is unseen is real. It’s really there. So the objects we are meditating on are real – you are not creating them in your mind or imagining them.

In one of Spurgeon’s sermons, he gave an example that was similar to this. (I can’t remember which sermon it was, but I will keep trying to find it.)

Envision yourself standing outside in the dark. You cannot see what is around you. There is a tree next to you. It is real. It is there. It exists. You just can’t see it. You shine a flashlight and you see the tree.  

In the same way, the heavenly city is as real as that tree; we just can’t see it yet. We are in the dark right now. This life on earth is compared to night-time. We believe that heaven is real and that it exists already and that if we had a flashlight that we could shine out into the heavens, we would see that heavenly city.

On earth, we walk by faith. But in heaven our faith will become when our bodies have been transformed and made fit for living in the heavenly realms. For now, we can only wonder what it looks like. We have the description of the heavenly city in Revelation 21. There a lot of hymns that use the imagery from those verses. I will be writing posts about those hymns and we can use them to meditate as we wait for the glory of heaven to be revealed to us one day.

As you are going through your day, remember to see the heavenly realms through an eye of faith. Remember that God is there with you and is watching over you. And remember the hope we have – the hope of heaven. One day we will be living with Him in glory.

WordPress makes AI generated images based on my posts. This is an interesting image that it generated based on the words in this post. There is a man standing next to a tree with a flashlight. He is shining it out towards the heavenly city. Remember, the heavenly city is as real as the tree. We should always be keeping in mind that heaven is right there beyond the sky. We just can’t see it yet.