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Invisible But Not Unseen
1 Peter 1:8 (New Living Translation). 'You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him, you trust him; and even now you are happy with a glorious, inexpressible joy.'
 People who don't know Jesus just don't get it. How can you and I love someone we've never seen? Someone we've never physically touched, or whose audible voice most of us have never heard? How can you and I be so passionate, so enamoured of someone whom the world says has been dead for almost two millennia? Why is it that we not only say that we know Jesus; we actually want to lay down all our personal dreams, ambitions and plans for his sake? All this is a baffling mystery to people who've never met the Lord. But for us who have placed our faith in him and what he did for us on the cross, it is a source of incredible, inexpressible joy: that we can know him in a very real, vibrant, personal and interactive way. God has promised that he will show the world great signs and wonders in the name of his Son. One of the greatest of all the signs God shows the world is the brilliant joy Christians feel in their faith. That joy, which is totally inexplicable to someone who's never met the Lord, is a sign that what is unseen is nevertheless very real.
Prayer: Lord, help me today to be filled with the joy that comes from really knowing you -- and make my joy a powerful sign to others around me, that you're real and alive.'
© 2003-2004 Mal Fletcher
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