“For We Walk by Faith, Not By Sight.” II Corinthians 5:7

How often have we quoted this scripture and yet, not realized what it means? When I first met Bobby under a Gospel tent, and we began to date, he explained to me that God had told him to go on a long fast… on nothing but water. That fast would be between 17 and 21 days. We were both in high school and he was still trying to go on that fast. Sometimes, he would fast on water for a few days or a week, but it took years until he finally fasted 21 days.

We were so poor, flat broke, and had two children. He had a little “rat shack” to stay in “to seek God.” By this time, we had two small children, we were poorer “than Job’s cat!” We could “see” what God wanted us to do in the future, but we were driving broken down cars, and had no money and no way of doing what God had called us to do. When Bobby went on that fast, he really expected to “see a vision,” or “have an angel visit him,” and tell him something… but, the whole time he was fasting, he “felt nothing,” and it seemed that God was a thousand miles away. Sometimes the devil said, “what if there is no God? You must be going crazy.”

The evening after he had gone on that fast, he was sitting in a rocking chair, praying, and all of a sudden, God spoke to him and said this one thing, “the just shall walk by faith, and not by sight.” That was it! That was the key… no visions, nothing spiritual happened, but that one thing… “the just shall walk by faith and not by sight.” In these perilous times we are living in, we cannot see ahead. We don’t know what the future holds, but we know “who” holds the future. Today, in your struggle, in your trial, remember this… “the just shall walk by faith, and not by sight.” God knows the way you will take, even if you cannot see it “in the dark,” just keep walking. God will bring you out! Have a blessed day.

Sherry

P.S. You can read this story in our book, “Love is Something You Do!”