The Seeing of the Unseen

Faith is the seeing of the unseen. Vision is the root word of "evidence" from Hebrews 11:1. Those who can see what isn't seen can make it manifest in substance.

Sometimes, it is hard to be the ones who see the unseen. It can feel like failure, like going backwards and re-walking a path over and over again. It is those days when you're feeling awful, like that dream of your heart is so far beyond your grasp, and you wonder why because you remember feeling better months before, remember holding and touching and feeling that very same dream and you're not quite sure how it slipped away.

How could it have slipped away unless you did something wrong, for a promise of Yahweh is never void, and He does not renege on what He has spoken.

But faith is the seeing of the unseen, and so the process requires a period of darkness after you've seen that dream of your heart. Sometimes, that period lasts a short time and sometimes it feels like it will never end, but the time period of unseen does not matter nearly so much as the promise itself.

Because it is during this time of not seeing that faith is made complete, that the promise that Yahweh gave you of that deepest desire of your heart is closer than ever to permanent manifestation. You are about to touch and hold and live in that dream and desire of your heart forever, for before it was a dream in your heart, it was first a dream in Yahweh's.

Your faith makes Yahweh's dreams come true.

I am full of faith right now, though I do not feel it. I feel very much on the edge of failure. I feel very alone and uncared for. I feel very sad and afraid. But I have seen and I remember.

I have seen a time when I did not wake up in dread of each day, fearful of messing up. There was a day when I knew that I could not break what Yahweh has established, when I realized that I was not going to mess anything up because Yahweh has already redeemed it. It's all His and in His hands anyway, and I do not have to carry this burden.

I have seen a time when I knew for certain that I was not broken. No longer am I lacking anything. Yahweh has made me whole. I don't have to fight myself or fear my feelings anymore. I am not at fault for anything that is happening in or around me. Yes, there will be times when Yahweh corrects me, and when He does it is not with blame or guilt, but with gentleness and care.

I have seen a time when I had a home in my Father. When there was someone to take care of me, to protect me from everything that might try to come against me. He ordered my steps and arranged my life to lead me back to Him and the place where I was always meant to be all along. I can trust Him as a Father, as One who is always on my side, will always take care of me. Always love me. He will never leave me and I will never be alone. He has always been faithful in the past, and I have seen His faithfulness all my life.

I have seen the place where I will live, and it is just ahead of me. It is a place of infinite trust in Yahweh, of leaving things in His hands and not having to control anything. Of trusting Him to keep my heart safe even when all around me are circumstances and situations designed to pierce it and tear it to ribbons. In this place I will walk in a greater level of freedom and rest and peace than I have ever known before. I glimpsed it for a little while, but now I shall walk in it permanently. For I have seen it.

I have seen, and I remember. The light shone in the darkness and the darkness will not overcome it. Faith is the art of keeping the light on when all around you is darkness, the steadfast holding of the Word that you've seen even when you cannot fully envision it anymore. Faith is seeing the unseen, and this time is just part of the process of maturity.

For if sin, when it is full-grown, leads to death, fully mature faith leads to the manifestation of Yahweh's promises in the visible realm so that all can see what we've seen all along.

And when this happens it is called glory. So glory! HalleluYah! I have seen.