🌿Breathe Truth🌿
”For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God Himself and not by human hands….
So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord.
For we live by believing and not by seeing.” —2 Corinthians 5:1, 6-7
🌿Believe Truth🌿
To believe has a myriad of several, subtle meanings.
•To accept as true. To be sure, convinced, have confidence of the truth.
•To come to the conclusion.
•To have faith in the existence or reliability of something without absolute proof.
In essence, to believe requires a holding.
What are you holding to as truth?
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The Israelites’ epic journey from Egypt. While Moses is on Mt Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments from God, His absence is the door that gives them the idea to rebel and revel on an epic level.
Our ancestors refused to listen to Moses. They rejected him and wanted to return to Egypt. They told Aaron, “Make us some gods who can lead us, for we don’t know what has become of Moses, who brought us out of Egypt.” So they made an idol shaped like a calf, and they sacrificed to it and celebrated this thing they had made. —Acts 7:39-41
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To accept as true, convinced and have confidence in the truth. The Israelites rejected the leadership of God. They utilized Moses taking longer time to return as an excuse and cause to take matters into their own hands. Rationalization trumped truth. They didn’t hold their convictions and confidence in God.
To come to the conclusion. The Israelites rejected the plans of God. They dismissed His deliverance from slavery and wanted to return to Egypt, the source of their bondage. They felt they needed their certain and familiar life in Egypt more than this uncertain and unfamiliar journey in the wilderness. Fear trumped truth. They didn’t hold their conclusion of their future in God.
To have faith in the existence and reliability of something without absolute proof. The Israelites rejected the worship of God. They wanted Aaron to make them made physical gods they could see. Just like their masters in Egypt who worshipped idols. The Israelites lusted after a god they could place their hands on, touch, feel, and bring down to their level. Betrayal trumped truth. They didn’t hold their faith in God.
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The earthly tent that consists of our bodies won’t last. The good news: God has a heavenly home prepared for us, an eternal body not made from human hands and that will outlast death.
We live by believing, not by seeing.
The Israelites, however, chose to live by seeing. They wanted a familiar life they were certain of instead of the unfamiliar terrain they found themselves in. They lacked trust in God to bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, of abundance and freedom. A land they had never seen. They wanted a god they could physically have contact with. The Israelites lived and worshipped by seeing.
But we can do differently. We can live by believing. By trusting God through familiar and unfamiliar roads. By holding His Words as truth to guide us through terrains we haven’t navigated yet and are currently traversing right now.
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Believing requires a holding. Hold on to God as the Real Truth as you live each day and journey in life. Journey with the Real Truth.