June 2, 2009 - II Corinthians 4

Do we possibly understand the idea of the unseen a little better than Paul did when he wrote II Corinthians 4? After all we have discovered how to broadcast waves that none of us can see, yet they can deliver sights and sounds. It has also become commonplace for us to use machines, that few of us ever open, that connect to machines all over the world to bring us virtually all of our knowledge at our fingertips through this 'internet'. Sometimes these two tools are combined and the information flows from one computer to another via the air waves of cellular phone service. These things are amazing and beyond most of our comprehension, but they are still 'seen' in the sense that they are temporary. If you have any doubt that computers are temporary, try to use or sell one that is more than five years old! Paul says in II Corinthians 4:18 that 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.' No, I don't think we understand that concept better than Paul did almost 2,000 years ago. Our modern tools and electronics have given us that much more to 'see'. What we should be looking for are the things that we cannot see, the things that last forever. Which are your eyes fixed on?