I agree completely, caww. So caught up in the five senses, they cannot understand that we are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. If it can’t be seen, or touched, or smelled, or heard, or tasted, then what good is it, they wonder. It’s the whole point of faith. We believe what we cannot see, hear, taste, smell or touch. And this is how they start down the trainwreck of having to use those 5 senses in order to believe. And then come the wolves in sheep’s clothing, so ready to deceive those who are not grounded in truth. It’s just a tragedy that could be avoided if the word of God is studied, rightly divided. And the worst part of it is, that it gets their eyes OFF 2 Cor. 5:14-21, preaching reconciliation to God by the finished work of Jesus Christ, and onto themselves completely. “What can I do to have MORE? Why isn’t God answering MY prayers? How can I get more faith so He will help me?” and so on. ANd the Gospel of the grace of God is set aside while they begin their journey of “ME”.
I’ve had my share of so called “dry spells”....and when it seems even His word tastes bland and hard to digest. But it is at these times I lean hardest on Jesus alone....believing without seeing, touching, feeling or any other emotion other than the longing for Him that this induces.
The Psalmist knew all to well...”How long?” He asked...”When?”
“Why is my heart disquieted in me?” and on and on throughout the Psalms we see him question and wonder where are you God in this...why haven’t you done something....etc.
But these are IMO the times where our ‘faith is stretched’ beyond what we alone can do .....and for me the times when I might “feel” without Him...I KNOW HE is all the closer then.
It is ‘believing without seeing’...and I’ve never been blessed so much then at these times and thereafter...just as HE said would be so. And that blessing is a closer walk with Him up close and personal once more.