Paul, in his second letter to the Corinthians used two phrases to characterize his view of his standing with God. He wrote, “we are always confident…” (5:6); and “We are confident…” (5:8). His reason for his confidence? “For we walk by faith, not by sight” (5:7).
Paul began this section of the letter by stating, “For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens” (5:1).
Through the eye of faith, Christians can look at “the things which are not seen…” (4:18). Faith is the “substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1).
While our faith is focused on the spiritual, the unseen, the eternal—that faith is not unreasonable. Our faith is based in the rational testimony of both God and man. God said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17). He established that by both the miracles Jesus performed (cf. John 20:30-31), and by raising Him from the dead (cf. Acts 2:32). The human witnesses of that resurrection ran into the hundreds, including the preeminent enemy of that Lord in that day, Saul of Tarsus (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:1-11).
Do you have that confidence? If you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, then you should be confident! Our faith is in the true God of Heaven and His begotten Son!
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