‘What is unseen is eternal’

We even extend that experience to other human beings, and would be very wary of people we cannot relate to in a way that we are used to doing.

Even so, there are things about the human body which we cannot see but know to exist - microscopic organisms which can either keep us healthy, or harm us, but are invisible to the naked eye.

We also recognise the existence of human emotions, and the effect they have on us.

Through the Bible, God also explains that what we experience through our physical lives is not the total of our existence.

He has more in store for us beyond the life we experience now.

“Through Christ all things were created - in heaven and on Earth, both visible and invisible.” (Colossians 1:16).

Jesus came into the world (which He also helped to create) to assure us that God promises an eternal life in Heaven with Him, for all who trust in the forgiveness which Jesus Christ earned for us by His death and resurrection.

We are encouraged that by faith in the future, which God promises, we are also able to receive His power to live out the life we already have in this world.

St Paul expresses it like this: “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:18).

~ Contributed by Bruce Driver from the Uniting Church, on behalf of the Combined Churches of Deniliquin.