If It "Is" Too Good To Be True, Then...

As I was reading my devotional this morning, the song by Air Supply came to mind. "I Can't Believe My Eyes" is a common expression of shock, disbelief, or amazement at seeing something unexpected, such as a stunning sight, a long-lost person, or an unbelievable event.

One remarkable aspect of aging is that, while your physical eyesight may deteriorate, your spiritual vision often becomes clearer.

When I was younger, I thought that "walking by faith" meant feeling spiritual—like closing my eyes during worship, sensing God's presence, and experiencing peace. However, when life got hard, I realized that faith isn’t about always feeling spiritual.

Paul wrote these words (2 Corinthians 5:7) while his life seemed to be literally falling apart: physical pain, beatings, and shipwrecks. His sight showed him failure—churches splitting, friends betraying him, and the prison walls around him. But his faith remembered a risen Christ on the Damascus road.

That's the thing about physical sight: sight says your prodigal child isn't coming home. Sight says the diagnosis is final. Sight says you're too old, too broken, too ordinary to matter. Sight watches the news and gets depressed.

Faith understands something that sight cannot. It remembers that graves can be opened, seas parted, the lame walk, and the blind see. Faith is not about pretending that everything is fine; faith is the certainty that what we see is temporary. No matter what happens, an eternal world of goodness and joy is in the future.

If you are a Christ follower and it is too good to be true, then... most likely it is from God

Today, our sight might be showing the impossible. Good. That's exactly where faith does its best work.

So what is your eyesight telling me that faith needs to argue with today? What has God done before that I need to remember now?

One remarkable aspect of aging is that, while your physical eyesight may deteriorate, your spiritual vision often becomes clearer.