What Do You See?
“By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.”
Hebrews 11:3 NKJV
Vision is so integral to faith. I’m not talking about what we see in the physical but what we see in our minds eye. Children are often referred to as sponges, because they soak in information, everything they see, everything they hear, their mind retains this information and it begins to shape and mould the way they think and act. Though we say this often about children, it is really no different for adults. What you let in, shapes what your minds eye sees and the bible tells us that “as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” So what you see internally, shapes who you are and the results you get.
Hebrews 11:3 above, draws attention to the relation between how faith works and the story of creation. So as I read the creation story, God drew my attention to four essential components of faith.
First God spoke it and it was.
“Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.”
Genesis 1:3 NKJV
After God spoke it, He saw it.
“And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.”
Genesis 1:4 NKJV
God didn’t stop visualising till good became very good.
“Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
Genesis 1:31 NKJV
After God saw it, He built it.
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”
Genesis 2:7 NKJV
When an architect is preparing for a new building, the builders don’t start until the architect has perfected the vision. First you must be able to see it, before you can build it. And God didn’t stop at good, He perfected the image before He began to build it. Though He created all things in Genesis 1, we see with man and with all animals and with the plants and herbs that He manifested them in Genesis 2. So with faith, you must first begin to see a thing before you can walk in it. That means letting God’s word in more than the worlds doubts. But finally we must see that it is not in building a thing that it becomes real, but it is in God speaking it. The bible is clear, once God spoke a thing, it was. For this reason we must learn to get clear vision of what God’s Word says and then walk in it.
“When there is no clear prophetic vision, people quickly wander astray. But when you follow the revelation of the word, heaven’s bliss fills your soul.”
Proverbs 29:18 TPT