(The exerpt below was taken from verseoftheday.com.)
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
— 2 Corinthians 4:18 (NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse...
What do you see most clearly today? Is it what is seen or what is unseen? No matter our belief system, we ultimately have to trust what we can't see. Even the most atheistic scientists trust gravity, breathe air, and depend upon principles they cannot see until these realities produce results in the tangible world of human perception. But as Christians, we don't believe the seen world is any more real as the unseen world. In fact, most of the seen world is subject to death, disease, disaster, decay, disorder, and death. I don't know about you, but if it isn't any more permanent than that, it's not going to be very real for any of us for very long. I want to hang on to something that allows me to look past the seen and to find my Father who is unseen. He is the one who guarantees the unseen!
This is what I read today before starting my painting. So I decided since it was so fitting a verse for the cause in which I'm painting these 365 days, why not write it on my canvas.
Right now, I know that my Aunt Carla is at a point where everything that she sees tells her not to hope. but I know that God wrote a promise into her heart when she first found out of the cancer that was trying to dwell in her body. It wasn't a promise of death, but rather one of life! So today as I wrote that verse as a promise on my canvas, knowing that God would reveal a life lesson through it, I then proceeded to cover over it with layers of paint until it was nearly illegible. It was at that point that I just stared at what I was left with, and I was talking with God asking him to reveal the unseen to me...then and there a bridge started to show itself. God revealed that verse to me on the canvas...not in the form of words, but in the form of a picture. He showed me how that faith is like a bridge that brings he and I together. So now it is just up to me to try to walk by faith across this bridge of life in the hopes that HE WILL BE FOUND on the other side!
(i got this prayer below from the website also but it just seemed fitting)
Eternal Father God of all peoples, help me see more clearly the spiritual, eternal, and real world of the unseen. I am not seeking novelty, nor am I on some quest for the bizarre. I only want to know you, your truth, and your character so I may more appropriately display them to others and help them come find you in the world of the unseen. Please grant me greater success at reaching others, to your glory. In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.
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