Day 186
I Peter 1:8
"Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory."
It is amazing how real Jesus is to us although we have never seen Him. Some of us may have had a vision of Him, but most of us have never seen Him. Yet, we love Him. The spiritual world is more real than the physical, because the physical came out of the spiritual. By the spiritual force of faith, we are connected to the spiritual world. Once we make the initial connection, it is easy to increase awareness of the unseen realm. We become more deeply involved through communication.
Often, as we talk to God and express our thanks to Him for His goodness, we can sense His presence. As He responds to us through answering prayers or manifesting Himself in some oilier way, the reality of His existence becomes stronger to us. When we fellowship with Him and walk in obedience to Him, the joy of knowing Him increases. He brings us a kind of joy we cannot explain. It is just a taste of the ecstasy we are going to experience in Heaven.
After the first step of believing, we study His Word and commune with Him. Then, believing Him becomes easier because of our experience. When we pause to try to reason it all out in our natural minds, it is always amazing to see how we can become so close, so intimately involved with someone we have never seen. We learned to love someone who brings us unspeakable joy, yet He has never met us physically or spoken to us in our natural ears. However, we know that we know that we know that Jesus is real. We know Him, and we love Him.
I love Jesus more than any human being or anything. He brings me joy I cannot explain. I look forward to meeting Him face to face. I am getting closer and closer to Him all the time.