2 Corinthians 5:7 - We walk by faith, not by sight....The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)
Some verses you just know, since you've memorized them and heard them your whole life. Somehow they take on a whole new meaning though when you're actually living them. Funny how I reach back for comforting verses to reassure myself, as we often do. Give me a verse to comfort me and reassure me that everything's going to be okay. Funny how that's exactly what these verses do. And yet, stopping and thinking about the meaning, and realizing that's what you have to do right now. Somehow it's easier to say these verses and feel totally comfortable with the meaning when you CAN see what's ahead. Oh, yeah, walk by faith, not by sight, no problem! But sitting and wrestling with the practical, down to earth, immediate consequences of those verses when you really can't see...wow. not such an easy kind of thing anymore.
This has me thinking about our witness too. How many times do we rattle off verses to non-Christians trying to comfort them or witness or whatever, just because we've memorized them and those are the verses we are "supposed" to say, without truly wrestling with the implications of those verses? Do they truly have meaning in our lives? Do we remember the struggles we went through later on and what those verses really mean when things are okay again?
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