"Seeing Him Who Is Invisible."
By Independent
It is said of Moses, in the epistle to the Hebrews, that "he endured as seeing him who is invisible." The idea here conveyed is that Moses realized to himself the existence, attributes, and authority of God, and obeyed him as fully and completely as he would have done if God had been to him a visible person and he had seen him with his carnal eyes. His mental apprehension was, for all practical purposes, the equivalent of actual sight. He acted "as seeing him who is invisible." Paul says to the Corinthians: "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen." It is this attitude of mind, this vivid and intense realization of the things invisible and eternal, and the quickened and all-controlling faith which makes these things real to the soul, so well illustrated in the life of Moses and in that of Paul, that are most needed in this world, alike by the impenitent and by those who claim to be Christians. Both classes are so much occupied with the things seen and temporal, and so accustomed to treat them as realities, and all else as either not real or not more than half real, that the things which can be apprehended only by faith are largely displaced from their minds. Their animal senses run away with their thoughts and keep God and the great things of eternity out of those thoughts. This is the great reason why the impenitent pay so little attention to the claims of God and the interests of their souls. They have so much to do with this world that they leave in their minds no room for any care about the next world. It is also one of the great reasons why Christians are so feeble and ineffective in their spirituality, and often apparently more interested in what they can gain here than in what is to be gained hereafter. An intense, all-absorbing and realizing faith, that fully believes and holds the object steadily before the mind, is the mental posture needed to make God the great governing power of the soul, and cause it to "endure as seeing him who is invisible."—Independent.