Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for.

3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.” George Washington Carver

As we work our way through this chapter we are going to see what faith does.

First of all, faith understands. The world says, ‘Seeing is believing’, but for people of faith ‘believing is seeing’.

Like Moses, paradoxically, we see the invisible (verse 27).

‘Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.’ Corrie Ten Boom.

Every preacher – or so it seems to me – should take heart from understanding that God created the universe by His almighty Word. What worlds of beauty might He continue to create (and sustain) in the hearts of those who hear His Word expounded?