Lockdown Day 3: CERTITUDE OR UNDERSTANDING?

Corinthians 4:18 “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

Transformed believers always display a quiet but confident joy in the midst of darkness, inconvenience and hardship. Infantile faith always seeks certainty while mature faith seeks understanding.

We sometimes tend to think that the opposite of faith is unbelief and we want to protect our hearts from doubt at all costs. The opposite of faith, in fact, is not doubt but certainty. If we have no doubt, we need no faith. After all, faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1)

As transformed believers, we should, therefore, deal with UNDERSTANDING, not CERTITUDE. We do not build our faith in the certainty that a 21-day quarantine will end the spread of the COVID-19 virus, but we do provide an understanding that God is using this pandemic to draw souls into the Kingdom. We do not build our faith on the certitude that our nations will be spared the hardship of more infections, but we can provide an understanding that God sometimes ordains hardship to display the cross of Salvation.

“When we reach the point where things simply make no sense when our thinking about God and life no longer line up, when any sense of certainty is gone, and when we can find no reason to trust God but we still do, well that is what trust looks like at its brightest – when all else is dark.”  Peter Enns