Walking Through The Lens Of Faith Series

SPIRITUAL GROWTH ENHANCERS

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2 Corinthians 5:7, CSB: "For we walk by faith, not by sight."

WALKING THROUGH THE LENS OF FAITH

The word "walk" in this text is metaphoric and about the way a person conducts his or her life. In other words, the way we live.

You can know that regardless of what you see, God is good and you’re going to be all right.

This Bible verse will encourage you to keep the faith when life is hard. Paul wrote this epistle to the Church at Corinth so that their faith will remain as fit as fiddle in the Lord. Paul was much more aware of the deep realities and difficulties of life. He and his other apostles had it rough and tough in spreading the gospel of Jesus. Life on earth for them was never rosy all the time because they were men of God and does a lot of great miracles.

Paul wanted them to accept the reality that there may be times of difficulties, distress and frustrations and all their troubles would not be solved by God in a day just because they gave their life to Jesus and are Christians.

When you give your life to Christ and become born again, all your problems will be solved at once and live a rosy rich comfortable life is the beautiful lies often told in Christendom. Some Church Pastors tell this lie to their church members and new converts a lot so when they begin to face the music of some strong challenges, opposition and hardship, they run back to the world and their old ways.

This is because they weren't told the gospel truth from the beginning that it is possible to go through some form of challenges as a child of God but the assuring word is, eventually God will see us through, make an escape route for us and bless us beyond what we can expect or imagine. This is called faith--walk--lens in action. Paul wrote to them so that their faith may be made strong amid their difficult days.

Faith is the pathfinding tool in the hands of the believer to walk through the fiery darts of the enemy and render the activities of demons useless. Faith is the only light through the dark tunnel. In chapter 23 verse 4 the Psalmist wrote: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil..." And why will he fear no evil when his holy pilgrimage is confronted with darkness and threats of death? That's faith in action!

Faith is the only spiritual lens that makes you see through and walk you through the dark tunnel, the deepest valley and myrrh of death without shaking. The spiritual lens of faith will walk you through the potholes, roaring waves, bad weather and Severe turbulence in these dark times and the world of perversity.

Turbulence is something that happens nearly every time you fly, whether you fly commercial or private. And every time it happens, it can be a little scary. Turbulence is one of the reasons travellers are at least a little nervous when it comes to flying.

Turbulence occurs when there is a disturbance in airflow. An aeroplane rides on the wind, and if that flow of wind isn’t perfectly smooth, then the plane will shake or move up and down with the “bumps” in the wind.

While some of us may feel more nervous about turbulence than others, understanding exactly what turbulence is, how pilots are trained to navigate it and how planes are designed to withstand turbulence can help calm your nerves. The pilot is trained to be able to direct or know when turbulence is coming.

Your pilot is an expert in more than how to take off, fly, and land (not that that isn’t impressive enough). Pilots are also trained in safety planning and navigation — including navigating the turbulence.

Before takeoff, the pilot has inspected the route and carefully analyzed the weather forecast and radars.

If they see anything that could cause turbulence, they will attempt to navigate an alternate route to avoid it altogether. In the case of inevitable turbulence, they’ll make sure the “Fasten Seat Belt” light is on, and that passengers are aware in advance of potentially more intense turbulence.

Planes are built to withstand most turbulence. And in the case of more extreme turbulence, which would ideally be navigated around, your pilot can bring down the plane’s speed to a safe velocity, so your plane won’t be damaged when it passes through the disturbances.

In extreme turbulence, the aeroplane is tossed violently about and is impossible to control. Without faith, the extreme turbulence and severe hurricane from this dark world of sin and evil become impossible to control. The Bible is your training manual. It teaches you how to successfully navigate through the fearsome raging of life's turbulence and hurricanes. Life battles are won on grounds of faith. Life's journeys are covered by the lens of faith.