We are about to enter into Luke 7. This whole chapter centers on faith. Specifically, what faith sees, the actual content of faith.
You’ve heard people talk about “blind faith” or that faith believes what cannot be seen (Romans 8:24). Faith is not blind. In fact faith sees perfectly. Faith has 20/20 vision. Faith sees reality. Faith has content and substance. It is tangible. Faith sees what can be seen about the divine life. Without faith, you cannot see what there is to see.
In 1674 there was a Dutchman by the name of Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. For some he’s considered the Father of Microbiology. In those days, drinking water was considered clean if you could see through the water.
But with the invention of the microscope came new sight. With that sight came new understanding. One day Antonie filled a glass vial with seemingly clear water and observed it under a microscope. Here’s the record of his observation.
I now saw very plainly that there were little eels, or worms, lying all huddled up together and wriggling; just as if you saw, with the naked eye, a whole tubful of very little eels and water, with the eels squirming among one another: and the whole vial of water seemed to be alive with these multifarious animalcules.
And so it is in the life of a person who begins to walk by faith. By default, we are blind to the reality of the world around us.
Jeremiah 5:21 “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but do not see.
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