What we can touch is easy to love.
Grandma’s vase, the one we inherited and treasure. Each time we dust its patterned surface, we feel her presence over again.
A puppy when it jumps in our lap and wants to snuggle. We’re charmed. How can we not love that, to be warmed by a cuddly ball of fur that wants nothing more than our attention?
How about a spouse? An arm, a hug, and a kind word can cause a surge of emotion that’s undeniable. We’re in love, now and forever.
Yet what happens when those things are gone? Does absence make the heart grow fonder, or do we lose touch with the things we no longer have at our side?
1 Peter 1:8 tells us the sincerest form of love:
“Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory.”
We can’t see God. We can know him by his creation, but he’s out of our line of sight. That’s why Christianity is called a faith-based religion. We believe even though we haven’t seen him.
You see, we choose to believe. That’s how it works. We stand on faith that God is real, and we fall in love with him, even though we can’t see him.
We love the invisible as though it were visible. Faith makes it possible, and an all-enveloping relationship with the Father is the result.
God sees that we love him when our worship is filled with inexpressible joy and the glory of his presence.
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