WE live By FAITH and not BY SIGHT!

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      Luke 18:43 "-.....when all people saw it,they Also praised God." 
..the word that caught my attention here was "SAW" -the people saw the blind man being healed and they praised God. 
     People need to see something in order to believe! They argue about God not existing because they can't see him. It seems difficult for humans to believe that God is a spirit and so then people get creative and make different colorful idols of various shapes and forms for themselves to worship and call as God!.
    Then there are these age-old questions; if God exists, why do Christians have health diseases, why do they suffer,why do people die of accidents, why is there evil in this world, why is this and that happening? I always feel that most people …not all but most people who will ask you ‘why and what’ don’t want to actually believe in the truth because like I said in my previous quiet time study Christianity Is A Lifestyle! :being a serious Christian involves making Christ-centric decisions every-day, changing your ways to please God, transforming yourselves for Christ and they don’t want to do that so they ask a bunch of questions and reason about god not existing and live as they please!!
   Then there are some people who would like to see something happen in their lives in order to believe;like a miracle of maybe healing or maybe financial needs being met or maybe something else like a job promotion or marriage,etc. 
    That doesn't require any divine skills...anyone can do that!! Seeing a miracle and then praising God is easy.
    But Its when you don't see anything happening in your life,no miracle of any sorts and everything seems unfair and everyone is moving forward while you feel stuck and your future seems blank to you but you still hold onto him, believing his word, his promises and hoping and trusting him;with you not understanding anything but leaning on him and his understanding( Proverbs 3:5-6) and you still chose to praise God just because He is GOD and you LOVE him! Now that definitely requires divine skills!
   We,believers don't see and praise;we believe and praise and it does not matter if we see or don't see!
   Also we study in this passage, they saw and they praised.There was no act of believing involved. So, we are capable of offering empty praises too!!  
    
WE live By FAITH and not BY SIGHT!(2 corinthians 5:7)


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