Faith Is Sight
We stand at a defining moment in our journey as a community of faith. A moment where we are being invited into something deeper and truer than many of us have known. For too long we have defined faith in terms that keep us reaching for what we believe we lack instead of resting in what has already been given. Today I want to call us into the fullness of what faith truly is. Faith is sight.
Faith is not believing for better days. It is not the strain of hoping that maybe one day God might move if we believe hard enough. Faith is not a posture of lack. It is not a posture of distance. Faith is not an effort to persuade God to respond. Faith is not a spiritual version of positive thinking or emotional persistence. Faith is sight. It is the revelation that God has already moved in fullness and that our role is not to convince Him to act but to awaken to what He has already done.
Faith in its purest form is not futuristic. It does not lean forward toward something that might be. It stands in the present and agrees with what already is in the heart of God. Scripture tells us Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen in Hebrews 11 verse 1. It reveals that faith is not about hoping but about seeing unseen reality as solid and present. Paul writes in Second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 18 that we do not look at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporary but the things which are not seen are eternal. Faith is sight because faith lives from the eternal not the visible.
Saint Gregory of Nyssa once wrote, “We shall be blessed with clear vision if we keep our eyes fixed on Christ… As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on Christ.” His words affirm that true faith is not striving toward God but seeing clearly the light of His presence already surrounding us.
When we say faith is sight we are declaring that faith does not wait for circumstances to change before it recognizes truth. Faith does not need proof. Faith does not demand a sign. Faith sees what is real even if it remains unseen by the natural eye. Faith lives in the awareness that the unseen is more real than the seen.
Many of us have spent our lives believing for things. For healing. For breakthrough. For provision. For answers. And somewhere in the midst of that journey we formed a belief that faith is about persistence and endurance and holding on until our circumstances match our prayers. But if faith is sight then faith is not the means by which we obtain what we lack. Faith is the awareness that in Christ nothing is lacking. Faith does not seek what has already been accomplished. Faith recognizes what already belongs to us and invites us to live from that place of certainty.
The Hebrew word for faith is emunah. Emunah does not primarily refer to belief or mental agreement. It speaks of trust and fidelity. It is the steady walk of one who is anchored in truth. Emunah describes faith as a way of life not a moment of effort. It reflects a faith that is lived out because the heart is convinced of what is real even if it cannot yet be seen.
Faith is sight and sight changes the posture of the soul. It ends striving. It ends fear. It ends the idea that God is far away or withholding. Faith brings rest. Not passive rest. Not spiritual laziness. It is the rest of alignment. The rest that comes when the heart is no longer dislocated from truth. Faith aligns us with the reality that heaven has already taken residence within and that we are not waiting for an external invasion but waking to an internal revelation.
Faith as sight means we do not pray for God to come closer. We open our eyes to the God who never left. Jesus said in Luke chapter 17 verse 21 that the kingdom of God is within you. Faith sees this. It means we do not beg for transformation. We see the new creation that we already are and allow that truth to fill our thinking and shape our identity. Faith does not require us to try harder. It requires us to see clearer. It is the unveiling of what has been concealed not the creation of something new.
Church we have carried the language of faith as if it were an effort based system. We have used phrases like hold on a little longer your miracle is coming or if you believe hard enough God will respond. These phrases are rooted in a limited view of God and a limited view of faith. Faith is not our effort to convince God to act. Faith is our surrender to the truth that He already has. Faith is never directed toward the future. It is always rooted in what is already finished.
When we stop believing for things and begin believing from fullness we stop living like orphans and begin living like sons and daughters. We stop praying from desperation and start praying from awareness. We stop waiting for permission to enter and live from the truth that we already belong. Faith is not the pursuit of answers. Faith is the expression of union. It is the life that flows from a heart that sees reality through the lens of the finished work of Christ.
Faith does not ignore pain. Faith does not avoid reality. Faith simply aligns with a higher truth. Faith is not pretending things are fine. Faith is recognizing that the presence of God is here even when the circumstances have not yet changed. Faith does not reduce life to a formula or a system. Faith is relationship. It is trust. It is sight.
The invitation is no longer to believe for something to happen. The invitation is to behold what has already been done. When we live with faith as sight we begin to see through a different lens. Everything changes. We stop asking if God will provide and start celebrating the provision already made. We stop questioning whether we are loved and begin living from the certainty that we are fully known and completely embraced. Faith is the lens that reveals what has always been true.
This shift from believing for to believing from is not minor. It is a total transformation of how we see God and how we see ourselves. We are not called to live as those waiting for fulfillment. We are called to live as those who have received inheritance. Faith is sight. It is the unveiling of reality. It is the vision that allows us to see beyond the limits of the natural world and live anchored in eternal truth.
Let us be a people who stop striving to get God to move. Let us be a people who see that God has already moved toward us with a love that cannot be measured or withdrawn. Let us no longer believe for outcomes. Let us believe from union. From presence. From fullness.
May our eyes be opened. May our hearts be aligned. May our lives be marked not by striving but by sight.
Faith is sight. And sight is freedom.
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