Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. It’s a new day of a new week and the fog is so thick you could almost cut it with a knife – a clear indicator that our winter temperatures have been up and down. I think the fog looks mysterious to everybody when we’re struggling to reach what we cannot see. I like the mysterious look of fog over the fields at the farm but that’s because I know, with absolute certainty, what it looks like on the other side of the fog even when I can’t see it with my eyes. Because I’ve studied the fields around me for so long, I know what lies ahead. As I considered the foggy fields and the low visibility this morning, I realized that this is precisely the way it is with the Journey of Faith. When we Know His Word, we know what’s coming even though we can’t see it with our eyes. We’ve studied it. We’ve savored it. We Believe it. Isn’t that just like God to strike my Heart through the fog?

The Bible says “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” and this one verse can make a non-believer absolutely crazy as they question why WE don’t question what we cannot see and they insist on having “proof” that God exists at all. No doubt Noah had his share of ridicule over the 120 years it took him to build the Ark but Noah was confident in what he couldn’t see. Noah and his family were the only ones to survive the flood and the proof-seekers were swallowed up by the sea. I wonder if they were still questioning as they drew their last breath? The world is filled with people wanting “proof” for plenty of things of God. In fact, modern-day churches are filled with people who only want an intellectual faith and if things get a little crazy when the Holy Spirit shows up…things they can’t intellectualize…they’re out. They don’t want to hear about the supernatural things of God because many of these things can’t be “proven” in their eyes. Plenty of pastors fast forward past scripture they can’t explain as if God included some insignificant things in His Word. If it’s written, I believe it…period. The “proof” I need is within my own Heart.

Sometimes I wonder what makes people so confident that they’re going to Heaven when they seem so far away from Truth and they refuse to Believe in what they can’t explain. Faithfully attending church won’t get you to Heaven. Opening the Word of God a few minutes here and a few minutes there won’t get you to Heaven. Your ability to quote your favorite scripture won’t get you to Heaven. Serving won’t get you to Heaven and neither will making donations. Sitting on a committee or teaching Sunday school won’t get you to Heaven. Being a greeter at the front door or an usher to collect the offering won’t get you to Heaven either. There really is only one way…to “buy in” to every Word of the Living Word of God and to Surrender every ounce of you and your will to a God you can’t even see with your eyes. Jesus said, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ Performance means nothing to the Living God – He wants blind Faith, a sold-out Heart, and the relationship of all Relationships. He wants to Know that you’ll follow Him through the fog and beyond. He wants to Know that you trust Him to lead even when you can’t see Him. This is what Faith looks like!

It’s Monday, it’s foggy, and it’s beautiful from the inside out. The Author and Perfector of my Faith has spoken to my Heart this morning and I’ve been Readied by the One I cannot see with my eyes. There isn’t enough I can say or do to adequately Describe my Love for Him BUT, the One I can’t see can read my Heart through it all. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”.

How about you?