Devotion 478

“Seeing The Invisible”

Reference: Job Chapter 42

Hebrews 11:27 “By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.”

The invisible God is visible by faith. He is as visible by our sense of faith as the smell of a fragrance by our sense of smell.

The visible God walked on earth about two thousand years ago. Today, in the Person of the Invisible God (the Holy Spirit), He lives among us, and in us.

John 14:19-20 “Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. [20] At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.”

He becomes visible by our faith. The world (unbeliever) sees Him not but we see Him by our faith.

Job sees the Invisible.

Let’s read:

Job 42:1-5 “Then Job answered the LORD, and said, [2] I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. [3] Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. [4] Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. [5] I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.”

Job saw the Invisible. His faith brought him to the spiritual dimension of seeing the invisible. This is where we see God, when we live not by what we hear, see, touch, feel, or taste but what we believe (faith).

Elisha saw the invisible, what his servant next to him couldn’t see.

2 Kings 6:16-17 “And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. [17] And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.”

By faith, we can see the invisible.

Unbelief is the spiritual blindness. Jesus Christ stood next to them but they saw Him not.

Luke 24:15-19,25-27 “And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. [16] But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. [17] And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? [18] And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? [19] And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: [25] Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: [26] Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? [27] And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.”

He is the same today but many see Him not.

We continue our reading:

Job 42:6-8 “Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. [7] And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. [8] Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.”

The friends of Job spoke falsely about God. They were not under the influence of the Holy Spirit. They were under the influence of Satan.

Matthew 16:23 “But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.”

We are either led by the Spirit of God or the spirit of Satan. There is no in-between.

We conclude our reading:

Job 42:9-17 “So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job. [10] And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. [11] Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. [12] So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. [13] He had also seven sons and three daughters. [14] And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren–happuch. [15] And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. [16] After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. [17] So Job died, being old and full of days.”

His trials and testings are always for our good.

The Lord felt forsaken by the Father on the Cross. The Father was not forsaking the Son. The Father was rather lifting up the Son.

The Father was lifting up Job in his trial.

Let the Father lift you up in trials. BELIEVE and confess Christ the Word as we’ve revealed Him from the First Adam. We see the Invisible by living beyond our physical senses, in Christ!