Seeing is believing?

Seeing is believing! That is what I am told. But do I have to see in order for me to believe?

In Deuteronomy 11:2-7 the Israelites were told Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the LORD your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm; the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt,... It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the desert …. But it was your own eyes that saw all these great things the LORD has done.

The second and third generation following the exodus from Egypt did not see the same miraculous work of God. God warned the Jews to teach God’s truth to their children so they would believe even though they had not seen the signs and wonders of God.

I makes me wonder how we would do if we were in the place of those second, third, and fourth generations. Would we say there is no God because WE have not experienced what others have experienced? Do we say there must be no God because WE don’t experience him the way others claim to experience him in other parts of the world?

Faith is really trusting God before we see the miraculous in action. May we learn to believe before we see. May we believe without seeing.