Daily
Devotional

One day when I was a young boy, my father and I were doing lawn maintenance at the home of a local attorney. His children and a friend had been swimming. After they pulled into the driveway, I noticed that the friend threw his swimming flippers over the car as he went into the house, and they landed askew. I walked over and set the flippers side by side. When the young man came out, he went to get his flippers and saw that they were lying side by side. He was excited and said to his friend, “Look how my flippers landed side by side!” Maybe I should have left him thinking that was the way they landed, but I let him know that I had laid them side by side. He retorted, “You ruined my story.”  

Thinking back on that day, I see what really happened was that I had taken away support for the young man’s false belief. He wanted to believe in the power of luck or fate, and had I kept quiet, that is probably what he would have thought. But the truth is that there is no real support for luck or fate.

As Christians, we do have support for our beliefs, and that support is God Himself. Although He is invisible, we know He is there because His workings are real and tangible. Our focus verse refers to Moses, who “endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.” That invisible God provided very visible assistance while Moses led the Children of Israel in the wilderness. When they had need of food, fresh manna appeared every morning. When they had need of drink, a rock was struck and water sprang out. There was no luck or fate behind those miracles—they were real acts of God.

Today, we still can enjoy the benefits of heavenly support if we look to Jesus. Our eyes of faith also have the ability to see Him who is invisible. When we pray and circumstances work out in our lives in miraculous ways, we know that it is not by chance, but because God intervened on our behalf. No one can explain away what God has done for us because our belief is true. Whenever we have a need, we can rely on our real, though invisible, support.