By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisble.
Hebrews 11:27 ESV
Man that verse just rocked me. I’ve been dwelling a lot on faith lately, spending a ton of time in Romans 8 and Hebrews 10 & 11. I had a picture the other night of what faith is: If there is a chair in the same room as you, but in another dimension, you could walk right through it and not even realize its there. Faith is the thing that crosses the dimensional boundary and allows you to not only perceive the existence of the chair, but with enough of it, possibly even sit in the chair. Its weird, I know, but it helped me a lot when trying to understand faith.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [...] By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God so that what was seen was not made out of things that are visible.
Hebrews 11:1,3 ESV
I haven’t figured out yet why I’m connecting those 2 verses, or why the writer interjected a verse about creation into an essay about the faith of the forefathers, but I find it really interesting. Anyways, to the reason that verse rocked me: I have come into the belief, and have been attempting to practice doing so, that it is possible to perceive Christ with the eyes of your heart on a regular basis. That you can learn in the spirit to go before His throne literally and just wait upon Him, but also see Him while doing so.
A couple weeks ago I had a dream about being broke. Like, our financial issues were so troubling me that they were seeping into my dreams, sheesh. So I woke up thinking about it, and as I did, I felt the Lord prompting me to just wait upon Him. So I just went and sat on the couch and waited, meditating on Jesus. As I did so, I began to have this picture in my Spirit of me just sitting on the floor in front of His throne cross-legged, just waiting. And there was a line of people stretching out before Him standing, waiting on Him to call them up to His throne and bless them, and give them a great big hug. I kept wanting to get up from my spot and get in line so He’d give me a big hug and bless me too, but I just felt the Holy Spirit telling me it wasn’t time yet, and that I just needed to sit there and look at Him. However subtle the vision was, it was a pretty neat experience. Since then, I’ve tried to practice going there to just sit before His throne, and a couple of times I’ve been able to. I wonder if thats what the writer was referring to about Moses?
