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Walk by Faith, Not Sight
"Yes, Christ was seen once, with physical eyes. Yes, he did signs and wonders
infallibly with a single word or touch. Yes, he died and rose and appeared to
many. But now he is gone from sight.
We do not see him that way now. As Paul says, "[When we are] at home in the
body, [we are] absent from the Lord!" That is, we don’t’ see him now.
Not only that, in this body of ours, we groan. We do not even see the
full effect of his power in our lives now. Rather, Paul says, we have his
Spirit as a pledge. The Spirit is an unseen, but experienced, down payment, in
advance of the sight of Christ in glory.
"So in what sense, then, do we walk by faith and not sight? We walk by faith
and not sight because on the basis of the past, visible acts of God in Christ,
and because of the compelling testimonies to these acts by the apostles, we now
trust in this living Christ and what he promises to be for us, though we do not
now see him with our physical eyes."
–John Piper, Taste and See, p. 194f.
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