You Believe Because You've Seen: Now Have Faith
Humanity possesses a deeply ingrained impulse to react to what it sees. When physical circumstances deteriorate, when systems crumble, or when personal suffering intensifies, the natural human reaction is to act. This "action bias" stems from a lack of faith. It leads to a cycle of despair, binding a nation's hope strictly to things that are, by nature, decaying and temporary.
In 2 Corinthians 4, the Apostle Paul introduces a radical alternative to this sight-driven force: a shift from the visible and fleeting to the unseen and eternal. A full examination of this perspective reveals that living by faith is not merely expecting what is to come but being constantly reminded of God’s eternal presence—to read His word because it justifies what we've witnessed.
When you witness your world falling apart, you might mistake this as God's absence, often judging the entire narrative by what you've experienced.
For example, Habakkuk cried out against surrounding injustice, assuming God was idle, only to learn that God was actively working behind the scenes. Paul begged three times for his "thorn in the flesh" to be removed, viewing it as an obstacle, until God revealed that His grace was sufficient.
In each instance, suffering became unbearable because they could not see what God was doing. Once His work is perceived, the weight is lifted. As Paul discovered, when the unseen reality of God's presence is realized, the seen reality loses its power to produce despair.
A common misconception is that a relationship with God begins at a specific turning point later in life—such as a midlife moment of crisis. This "start-date fallacy" assumes grace was absent during earlier years of unbelief or rebellion, prompting people to bury, curse, or disown their past.
However, God’s grace is not an on-demand service that switches on whenever you decide to turn to Him. God’s work exists across all time: He was, is, and will always be, faithful. Scripture affirms that God forms and knows you from the womb (Psalm 139). Living without faith does not mean God was absent; it means you were blind to His presence. But when faith takes root, His grace reveals His presence was there with you all along.
TheGoodNewsCast.com is justified because it rests on the objective authority of God's Word.
God says at the Transfiguration, "This is my Son, whom I love; listen to Him." He sets up righteousness in Christ, because the Father is in Him, and through the Father the nonbeliever lives by faith. TheGoodNewsCast.com, however, trusts in God, in whom Christ resides, and so it is through Christ that God's grace was made complete in us.
Scripture serves as an unshakeable, permanent record that stands firm regardless of fluctuating emotions or circumstances. It stands as an objective truth that TheGoodNewsCast.com believes in God and lives by faith.
For example, when Thomas demanded proof of the resurrection, Jesus met him in his doubt but declared, "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
TheGoodNewsCast.com does not require proof to trust God, so when we hear Him, we do not doubt. However, to live by faith does not mean we are forever silent. As Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 4:13, quoting the Psalmist, "I believed; therefore I spoke."
We do not need Scripture to prove God's existence; we are naturally led back to it as a witness for the non-believer. We only point to the written word because it testifies of God's existence, love, and grace so that you may live by faith the moment you believe.
Living by faith transforms what we see and experience in the world. We are justified and secure in the written record of Scripture and point to it because it proves our innocence, but also because it proclaims an active, eternal work of God to a world that needs to see it.
Now that you've witnessed TheGoodNewsCast.com demonstrate faith in action, we invite you today to live by faith and be a witness and testify of the unseen reality of God's love and grace in the world to someone who needs to see it too. ​