Seeing the Truth of Now

Go outside at night and with a clear sky you can see thousands of stars.  What you are looking at is not the present, but the past.  It has taken a long time for the light from those stars to reach you.  You are gazing at what occurred back in ancient history.

Look at the sun and your looking at the past also.  What you see is what occurred about eight minutes ago.  Look at an object near you and again you are not looking at the present, but the past.  What you see is from a small fraction of a second ago, but it is from the past.  You can never look at anything that is present.  The moment you see it, it is already in the past.

Can you ever see Truth?  Truth is what is and if you can not see what is at the present, how can you see the present truth.

You will never see with your eyes what is the truth now, only what was true in the past.  The only way to see what is actually true is by faith.  Truth is not something our senses can perceive.  Truth is only found by faith.

We must live our lives by faith.  Our senses can be fooled and they never tell us what is true at the present.  We have faith that the object we see two feet away, is still there and unchanged.  We have faith that we are driving our cars on the road we see before us.  There is such a short period of time between what was and what we see,  that we have faith that all is unchanged.

The world around us is changing and passing away, but the things of God are eternal and God never changes.  We must live by faith in this life, holding onto the Truth of God.  If we were to discern God only with our senses, we would only see God in the past.  To have faith in God is to perceive the Truth in the now.

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