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Friday... We want to know exactly.


2 Corinthians 5:7 (NLT), "For we live by believing and not by seeing."

Friday... We want to know exactly.

We want so much to have a picture that we can see.

Now there are a lot of questions about our future life and also about heaven. So many books have been written from what people think than from what God has said. But this is important for us to see. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NLT) says, "For we live by believing and not by seeing."


We too many times want an exact picture, we want to know exactly. And heaven is one of those things we want a picture of but that is not how God works. If he wants us to know exactly then he will tell us. And he hasn't given us a specific view about what heaven will look like but we still want to know exactly.

Some want to know how we will look in heaven. What kind of body will we have. Now there are some things that God will tell us. Here in 2 Corinthians 5 he says in verse 3, "For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies." Now it seems that he is telling us that we will not be spirits but that we will have some form to us and as the greek says we will not be naked. But that is all. What he wants us to know he will tell us but seeing it exactly is not the way we are to live, we live by believing.

Now verses 6-7 says, "So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. For we live by believing and not seeing." Yes, there are things we can always know because we believe.

So what does this all mean? Yes, we want to know and see what is ahead of us. We want to know there is something better ahead but we may not see specifics.

The Amplified Bible says verses 6-7 this way, "So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord - for we walk by faith, not by sight [living our lives in a manner consistent with our confident belief in God's promises]."

We do not know exactly what is ahead but we can live with confident faith and hope in God and his promises. And one of them is heaven and it is real. "For we live by believing and not by seeing." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


 


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