Assurance About What We Do Not See
Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. It is by its very nature scarcely conscious of its own existence. Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves—blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One. While he looks at Christ, the very things he has so long been trying to do will be getting done within him. It will be God working in him to will and to do.
—Tozer
Hebrews 11: 1 gives us this definition of faith: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” We often times find ourselves within stressful settings or circumstances and fail to see how things could possibly work out for good in the end. Sometimes we become so discouraged that we fail to see even ‘a light at the end of the tunnel.’ But this is God’s specialty: bringing light into darkness! We should pray for and long after eyes of faith; eyes that see the good in things; eyes that see the things hoped for and promised; eyes that recognize God’s promise to never leave us nor forsake us; and eyes that look for Him, within, around, and above the circumstances before us. Eyes that recognize our Father. —DH
—David Hoskins, Founder & Care Guide, Sanctuary Clinics