seeing in the dark

"Faith is the ability to see in the dark,

to pierce beyond all that is

visible,

tangible, 

sensible, 

or even conceivable,

and yet still to connect with something solid.

This spiritual landfall is what frees us from the prison of ourselves

and of the world's passing show.

If our gospel is not one that, like Job's, will stand up to the prolonged test of having absolutely no circumstantial evidence of worldly success, then it is a gospel of straw.

It is a gospel founded on appearances,

not on the cross of Christ."

Taken from The Gospel According to Job

written by Mike Mason

pg 146

Used by permission of Crossway Publishing