Waving a Red Flag

“Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.” (I Peter 1:8)

No one living today has seen George Washington, Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. But they are part of the very fabric of the United States of America. No one would be willing to show his ignorance to the rest of the world by saying these men never existed. We depend on the accounts of reliable historians and biographers to tell us their stories.

I have often wondered why people who profess they are wise wave a red flag over their ignorance by saying Jesus, the Son of God, never existed and was not, is not real. We have numerous accounts of His person-hood, power and passion from reliable eyewitnesses who lived in that day.

We Christians have not seen Him in the flesh, but we know He is alive and well and that we will see Him in person one day. Do not doubt that fact. We have not seen Him in the flesh but we love Him and rejoice with unspeakable joy.