Why do we think that living in the world makes it hard to believe the truth of Christ? Oh, I understand the struggle just as much as anyone, but I have come to realize that it’s all backward! Everything we face on a daily basis makes a false demand against a reality that is within us. Yes, within us.

Listen, the world might scream at you, or it might just stand in silence while it makes you think your faith hangs in the balances. Know this, though, that all it can do is demand that you NOT believe what you truly do know. It grates against the very living source of God within us, which is why we sense such a struggle. We don’t need to try to hold onto “faith” in the face of all this stuff, for if we will listen we will recognize that the spirit of this world is that which struggles to force us to deny what we really do miraculously believe. Call it for what it is: a LIAR.

What if it turned out that all this temporal stuff was actually a witness to the eternal reality within us? After all, the more we live, the more we know without a shadow of a doubt that it is all falling apart and passing away. None of it lasts. And the pain of it all is continually reinforcing the truth we know within us that true life is eternal. What we can see and touch and hear, that which appears to have substance, is the vapor …. the invisible, the unseen, is the true substance.