Seeing Is Believing

At a moment when the children of Israel were pressed beyond their ability, when their backs were up to the sea, when there was no way out, God made a way.  All they could do is observe the mighty hand of God.

We live in a day and age where marketing prevails, where planning is key, and where institutions manage the future.  We become the targeted objects of endless sales-pitches. In it all, we search for substance, for worth, for value.

Where do we spend our money and our time? What gives a return, and ultimately, on WHOM do we put our confidence?

Correct theology (that is–our view of God) proves correctness through divine action and results.  These results don’t come by planning or by committees; they come by the power of a living God with a powerful hand.

Seeing the free exercise of God’s sovereign, providential intervention into our lives is like the parting of the Red Sea.  The East Wind of God starts to blow. We sense something is about to happen. The waters begin to abate, and suddenly the dry land appears.

When the waters part, the 400 years of slavery or hardship become a distant past. They pale in comparison to the amazing walk-through-deliverance that is right in front of us.

When we SEE the power of a living Christ, then we fear the God of action and creation. We experience the deliverance ourselves and rejoice in the salvation of the collective church.  The qualitative difference in divine action removes all doubt and we ‘believe the Lord’ (Ex. 14:31). 

Praise and worship follow that salvation (Ex. 15), that deliverance, that sand-under-our-sandals reality. God shows up, just in time.  Our enemies are dead on the shore. We can move on in freedom.  Seeing is, in fact, believing.