Category: Devotion of the Day

THE BELOVED UNSEEN

Whom having not seen, ye love.
I Peter 1:8

Walking with a little four-year-old, I said something about loving Jesus. “But how can I love Him,” she asked, “when I can’t see Him?”

Thus she posed a problem which has occupied not a few grown-ups. Peter had seen Jesus. He was writing to Christians who had not. Yet they loved Him, anyway, and though now they saw Him not, yet believing, they rejoiced with joy unspeakable and full of glory.

We cannot see Him, but He lives and we can believe. And if we trust Him the Spirit makes Him real and the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts. And we make our way through this evil world in love with One we have never seen. We are not infatuated with a hero of fiction, a memory or an ideal. We love a Living Person who was and is, and we shall be like Him, for one day we shall see Him as He is.

Yes, we can love Him though we cannot see Him.

THREE WORLDS

The world that then was…
The heavens and earth, which are now…
Nevertheless, we…look for new heavens and a new earth.
II Peter 3:6, 7, 13

We are hearing much about “one world”. The Christian thinks in terms of three worlds. The first was destroyed by water. The second will perish by fire. The believer looks for a third, where righteousness dwells. This present world is reserved for fire. The new world is reserved for us who have become citizens of heaven, to whom this present evil world is bout our passage, not our portion. We are strangers and pilgrims, we seek a city.

The people of the first world “knew not” until the flood came. Only Noah had his eyes open. The people of our world know not, nor will they know, until sudden destruction comes. They pride themselves on what they know, but it is only educated ignorance. There are those today, however, like Noah who know what time of day it is. When the last storm begins to break and all heads in this world droop, they will lift up theirs, for redemption nears. The Third World is about to begin!