“For we walk by faith, not by sight” 2 Corinthians 5:7 NIV
This verse was the motto for my mom and I. We both viewed this verse as how you should live life as a believer – always focusing on God and what He was doing in our lives. My mother was a woman of great faith. She lived through some very rough times but she knew that God was going to get her through. He brought her through abuse as a child, the loss of her mother at a tender age, an abusive marriage and a life of barely making ends meet to pay bills and provide for my brother and myself.
By the world’s standards and what she saw of others who had lived through the same type of experiences, she was destined to be homeless, broke and angry at the world. But that was not her, she chose to walk by faith, not by what the world showed her should be her destiny. My mother struggled with a lot of things but her faith was not one of those things. She knew where she was going and at the end of her life, she longed to go there, to be with Jesus. She longed for heaven, she knew it was real. Not because of anything that she saw in this temporal world but because her faith in Jesus and God told her that it is real.
Our life circumstances are not always what they seem. We may not have had a lot of money, but my mother would say all the time that we were some of the riches people she knew. We were rich in love and faith in God. I know without a doubt that my mother is in heaven with Jesus, singing His praises and filled with joy that she was right to believe in Jesus, to have faith.
As you go through your day, think about what your faith is in. Is it in money, relationships, things or is it in God? I can tell you that mine is in God because among all the other amazing things that God has done for me, He placed a wonderful role model in my life to help guide me. So I urge everyone to “walk by faith, not by sight”