That “sense” of Him

“Though you do not see Him, you love Him” (1 Pet 1:8)

If we were to explain why we love Jesus, we might begin with what good things He has provided us. But as our explanation grew more authentic, it would have to enter those areas we have never seen…His attributes, His majesty, that sense we carry of Him of the loving, sacrificial Savior.

For, we have not seen Him. The love that penetrates this lack of sight is very strong. Its strength has been able to hold up believers in the most dire of situations.

“and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy” (1:8). Considering this….

“A total of fourteen years in prison passed for me. During all this time I never saw a Bible or any other book. I had forgotten how to write. Because of the great hunger, doping and tortures, I had forgotten the Holy Scriptures.

“God is ‘the Truth.’ The Bible is the ‘truth about the Truth.’ Theology is the ‘truth about the truth about the truth.’ Fundamentalism is the ‘truth about the truth about the truth about the Truth.’…Hungry, beaten and doped, we had forgotten the ‘truths about the Truth,’ therefore we lived in the ‘the Truth.’…We could not think any more. In our darkest hours of torture the Son of man came to us, making the prison walls shine like diamonds and filling the cells with light. Somewhere, far away, were the torturers below us in the sphere of the body. But the spirit rejoiced in the Lord. We would not have given up this joy for that of kingly palaces.”

The time of that indestructible love is now. In this time of no sight, let us love Him even more deeply!———————-
(Quote by Richard Wurmbrand)