Holding onto the Unseen

I hope none of us is feeling like this today:

Empty! What's unseen in this picture is all the stuff the panic buyers in Tesco have horded up in the hope of not missing out on something they need....

As members of the Church, we have something unseen to grasp hold of, and it's something that will never run out, something that we really do need and best of all, it's freely available now!

I am, of course, talking about our faith. Here is what the writer of 'Hebrews' said about it:

"Faith is....the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen"  (Heb. 11 v 1)

From John we hear, "No one has ever seen God"(John 1 v 18)  , and Paul puts it like this: 

"For we walk by faith, not by sight" and also, "So we do not lose heart....because we look not to things that are seen but to things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal".   (2 Cor. 5 v 7 & 2 Cor. 4 v 16)

So, instead of joining in with any of the hysteria, we put our faith in the God who created us and this beautiful world in which we live.

We can see the beauty all around us:

St. Malo last Sunday

And even on our own doorsteps:

I'll give the last word today to Peter, he put it like this:

"Without having seen Him you love Him; though you do not now see Him you believe in Him and rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy" (1 Pet. 1 v 8)

We walk  faith in our loving God and we enjoy his creation, we trust in His word and share our confidence that He will hold on to us as we hold onto him.