Live By Faith, Not By Sight

“Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.  We live by faith, not by sight.  We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.  So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.  For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

– 2 Corinthians 5:6-10

In this world there are many people and things trying to distract us and pull our sights off of Jesus and his plan for our lives.  Yet as you begin to focus on the Lord and mature in him through the Holy Spirit, you come to understand that you must weed out these distractions from your life keeping you from doing his will.  The world does not teach you to walk by faith, instead the world teaches you to constantly walk by sight; crowding up all your time with people and things so that you do not have time alone with the Lord to hear him speak to you.  The world will not tell you to blindly step out on faith to do anything if you do not have the means to do it and it is not already there right in front of you.  However, the Lord calls us to live by faith, not by sight.  The Lord will reveal things to us through the Holy Spirit that no one of this world can discern or understand and he will tell us to do things that may seem absurd to everyone of this world.  When we walk in obedience to what the Lord tells us to do through the Holy Spirit, then we are walking by faith, not by sight.  As believers in Jesus, we consciously make it our goal to please the Lord by being obedient to what he tells us to do for him while we are here in this body, yet our hearts long to be at home in heaven with him.  Ultimately, we will all be judged for everything that we do while in this body, whether good or bad.  That is even more of a reason why we need to filled with the Holy Spirit, constantly listening to what the Lord tells us to do, and walking in obedience accordingly.  We need to be living by faith, not by sight!