Day 13 - Leah Williams

We have always heard and probably said ourselves, "seeing is believing." We have also heard that "faith is blind." How do we reconcile these things? Jesus had allowed the disciples to see him and breathed the Holy Spirit into them, opening their hearts and eyes to see and believe. Thomas was unwilling to believe unless he could physically touch the wounds on Jesus' body. Jesus allowed him to do just that, and Thomas believed, saying, "My Lord and my God." (John 20:28) 

There is nothing in this world that did not come from God because He created all of it. We have overwhelming evidence that there is a God to believe in, and though we cannot see him in bodily form as Thomas did, we can believe because of what he has given us to see. From the glorious sun rising each morning to the joy in the faces of children He fearfully and wonderfully formed, His glory is displayed in all His creation. 

Our faith does not need to be blind, and we don't have to see to believe. We have been given the gift of the visible within the invisible. When we believe what Jesus did for us on the cross, we are filled with the Holy Spirit, who helps us see and understand the beauty of the world He created. "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it, the people of old received their commendation. By faith, we understand that the universe was created by the Word of God so that what is seen was not made of things that are visible." (Hebrews 11:1-3 )