WE ARE SAVED BY HOPE
“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?” (Romans 8:24).
We receive more input from our eyes than from any of our other senses. Just think how drastically your life would change if you couldn’t see. Therefore, it’s easy to understand why we become so dependent on our physical sight. However, there are things we can’t see.
In the kingdom of God, hope believes in things that have no physical evidence. Hope is a confident trust and reliance on God for results that can’t be seen in the natural. Those who cannot break free from their senses, especially their sight, will never be able to operate in God’s kind of hope.
How do we overcome what our eyes tell us? If our circumstances are contrary to what we know God wants us to have, how do we conquer the negative input? The answer is God’s Word.
Through meditating and acting on God’s Word, we gain spiritual sight. We can see with our spiritual eyes. We do have spiritual senses. This is what Jesus meant when he said, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear” (Matt. 11:15). We have spiritual ears and eyes that enable us to perceive things that are hidden to our natural senses. But we must use our spiritual senses. We can’t see with our physical eyes if they’re closed. Likewise, our spiritual eyesight won’t work if we’re not open to the Spirit of God enlightening His Word. Those who aren’t seeing their world through God’s Word are spiritually blind. We don’t want to be blind in our hearts! Open up your eyes through opening up your heart to God’s Word, and then hope will surface.
Sol.Mariamma Alex