The Christian does not have all the answers to the whys that baffle and perplex him, but he has the Answer in whom are gathered up all our problems. We see not yet all things put under Jesus, but we see Him and He is our song.
Devotion of the Day
“Yet Believing”
Whom having not seen ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.
1 Peter 1:8
Peter had seen Jesus. His readers had not but they believed anyway. Did not our Lord say a similar thing to Thomas: “Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed”? (John 20:29.)
It is not every man’s privilege to see, but it is every man’s privilege to believe. Our love and our faith do not rest upon sight. Neither does our rejoicing. We have “joy and peace in believing” (Romans 15:13).
Do not demand a vision. Only three saw the glory on the transfiguration mount. But all the disciples walked with our Lord in the valley. The others were not disqualified by missing the vision. It is not lack of sight but lack of faith that rules us out. “We walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7) Yet believing-anyhow!