“We walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7).
Let not the Christian ever suppose that the world, or even carnal believers, will ever understand what it is to “live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me,” for “the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” But just as our spiritual life started by faith, when we believed on Christ as Savior, so does it continue by faith. “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him,” for “in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.” So we live not by what we see, but by faith, for “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen,” and “we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” “Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed.” And let us never forget that this moment-by-moment “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” So “cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.”
We live by faith, and not by sight;
We trust His Word, by day and night;
His Word is sure; He cannot lie;
He begs us then His grace to try.
Gal. 2:20; 1 Cor. 2:14; Col. 2:6; Gal. 5:6; Heb. 11:1; 2 Cor. 4:18; Rom. 4:16; 10:17; Heb. 10:35.