You’ve heard the phrase, “Seeing is believing.” We usually use that term when we see something happen that we just didn’t imagine could happen. When we see it happen, we believe.

There is an unseen reality, a spiritual kingdom that is all around us, we won’t perceive its presence until we have spiritual eyes to see it.

Our unseen God is only “seen” through the spiritual eyes of faith. If we do not have a saving faith in Christ, we do not have eyes to see that spiritual realm that is woven all around us. Once we have placed our faith in Christ our spiritual eyes are opened and we can perceive it.

For the past two thousand years (what theologians call the “church age” which we are currently living in), this is how believers have experienced God, having our spiritual eyes open by faith and perceiving His kingdom. We don’t literally see it, much like we don’t see the wind; only the effects of the wind; but it is our reality.

The saints in the Old Testament “saw” God the Father through His power, through His word to a Patriarch, Prophet, Judge, or King. Their view of the unseen God was totally different from the saints of the New Testament, who had God in the flesh – Jesus Christ living among them. They too witnessed God’s power through the Son. Since that time, for two thousand years, we have “seen” God through the power of the Holy Spirit, living in us. Do you notice how the trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have together revealed God throughout human history?

I love what author A.W. Tozer (The Pursuit of God) says about this, “A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here waiting our response to His Presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality…Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there. The worshipping heart does not create its Object. It finds Him here when it wakes from its moral slumber in the morning of its regeneration.”

God says it this way in Hebrews 11:6 “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”

This spiritual world is a reality to those who believe. There are things we experience in that spiritual world that we can’t explain. But because we have feet in that world, as well as this one, we have the privilege of experiencing the unexplainable!

II Corinthians 4:18 “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” It is from this unseen kingdom, ruled by its unseen King, where our journey to surrender begins. No wonder the trek to reach the place called surrender is so ethereal; it is an intangible experience, yet very real!