Unicorns & Talking Snakes

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. Isaiah 34:7 KJV

One word? Unicorns. Let’s be honest. Christianity can seem weird. We believe in all sorts of weird things. Possible giants/angels having children on earth (Genesis 6.1-4), paying your taxes because there was money in a fish you caught (Matthew 17:27), a serpent talking (Genesis 3), a donkey talking and actually winning an argument (Numbers 22:28-29); the list could go on.

Rational empiricism is not the pinnacle of truth for us, our minds are vitally important, we can problem-solve, seek the truth but our worldview is supernatural, not natural. 

Embracing the unseen starts with acknowledging that there is a realm where real things exist as a substance in that realm and not compartmentalizing them as separate, dealing with the spiritual and physical as divided. There is one realm and we must learn to live in it with the seen and unseen. Faith for example is a substantive thing. It is real, has substance, and yet cannot be seen. The same can be said of love, hope, peace etc. All unseen but deeply experienced by their presence or even their absence. There is no veil between one world and the other, no matter how hard we try to put one up.

In Ephesians 4 we are informed that an unseen response (anger) can and will give the devil a foothold in your life. Fantasizing about revenge, mulling over the wrongs and injustices, staying as angry as I can WILL allow the devil to have a hold on some part of my life. Footholds soon become strongholds. I suspect we all see that this is true - an unseen thing becoming manifest in dark ways. Unseen things can also become manifest in amazing ways. Focusing on what is good, what is loving, what is pure. Your dreams and destiny will manifest something in your life that is magnificent.

We are told in Hebrews 11 that Moses did not fear the wrath of the King because he acted like someone who had seen the unseen Jesus. Moses focused on a King of Kings that he had never laid eyes on but knew existed as unseen. As a result, Moses was unshakeable and endured to the end.

The unseen realm is not just about angels and demons, it has in it your promises, your destiny, all those hopes you have in your life.

Oh, and it does have angels!

Let’s see the unseen today. Let’s believe that just because we can’t see those things that they do not exist. They do.