Insight

"At the root of the Christian life lies belief in the invisible. The object of the Christians' faith is unseen reality. Our uncorrected thinking, influenced by the blindness of our natural hearts and the intrusive ubquity of visible things, tends to draw a contrast between the spiritual and the real - but actually no such contrast exists. The antithesis lies elsewhere, between the real and the imaginary, between the spiritual and the material, between the temporal and the eternal; but between the spiritual and the real, never. The spiritual is real.

"If we would rise into that region of light and power plainly beckoning us through the Scriptures of truth, we must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen. For the great unseen Reality is God. 'He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him' (Hebrews 11:6). This is basic in the life of faith. From there we can rise to unlimited heights. 'Ye believe in God,' said our Lord Jesus Christ, 'believe also in me' (John 14:1). Without the first there can be no second."

-- A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God