. . .an extension of the Orange Moon Cafe
"I will speak of the glorious honour of Thy majesty,
and of Thy wondrous works."
"His work is honourable and glorious:
and His righteousness endureth for ever."
Psalms 145:5, 111:3
This was our sunrise this morning as Ellie and I took our morning walk.
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| Picture courtesy of Canva.com |
Glen
and I both shared stories with them about the old manual typewriters and the strength required to press down those keys, especially the ones that used the little
finger. We also told them how the
teacher would often make the class put metal caps over the keys, so we couldn’t
see what letter we were typing. We were
supposed to have already memorized the keyboard, but this helped give us incentive
if we had not.
As
we were having this discussion with our daughters, I was struck by the
similarity of the parenthetical statement in 2 Corinthians 5:7, “For we walk by
faith, not by sight.”
Paul
also addresses this in Romans 1:17, “For therein is the righteousness of God
revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, ‘The just shall live by faith’ ".
Paul is referring to Habakkuk 2:4, “Behold, his souls which is lifted up in not
upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.”
The
Lord expects His children to live by faith.
Faith in what? No, faith in
Whom. Faith in Him. He wants us to experience His life, in and through us, by faith. This is a lesson we can only learn in this
world, in these bodies of flesh. Our
world screams at us things that are contrary to the will and way of the
Lord. Our bodies tell us things that are
not true, for they only respond and react to what the senses tell them. Our flesh shouts to us that there is never
enough…never enough supply, never enough strength, never enough…anything. The world tells us our God is not real, He
does not supply abundantly, He can’t love us because He doesn’t exist.
When
our teacher put the caps on our typewriter keys, we had to type, believing which
finger should and could type which letter or symbol. The more we did the exercise, the more
confident we became that we could type without looking at the keys. The more confident we were, the better we
typed.
In
this world, the Lord often has the “caps on our keys,” as it were. He wants us to believe what He says is true without
having to see it with our eyes, hear it with our ears, or touch it with our
hands. Faith is how our relationship
with God works, and He wants us to be well-schooled in its use.
Then
the day will come when our bodies, “this corruptible, shall have put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be
brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”
(1 Corinthians 15:54.)
So
let us look forward to those opportunities the Lord places in our path to type
a perfect letter, even with steel caps on.
The lessons learned here, which can only be learned in this setting, will reap
great rewards.
“But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians 15:57
