God's Presence and Our Faith

Faith is vitally important in everything we do as Christians because it values all our circumstances and conditions by the presence of God.  It values all things by how they impact our relationship with our Lord, by the degree we enjoy Him in them.  The Christian sees the world in a fundamentally different way than the unbeliever, because faith sees God in the world.  Any book or movie, no matter how benign its subject matter may appear to be, is presenting a false view of reality if it leaves God out.  Even the most family-friendly stories, if they ignore the reality of God, are presenting the very evil idea that people can find happiness without God.  Faith sees that God is intimately concerned with and involved in every aspect of our lives.  In heaven we will behold God face to face (1 John 3:2).  For the present we are made aware of God’s presence with us only by faith, while we are engaged in acts of obedience to His will.