Scripture:

“So we do not lose heart…. We are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord – for we walk by faith, not sight.” (2 Cor 4.16, 5.6-7)

Reflection:

We have to cope in a world in which God seems so often absent - just as the friends and followers of Jesus had to learn to live without his physical presence.

St Paul had an exceptional experience of ‘seeing the light’ and was exceptionally empowered to be a missionary. But he also experienced much terrible personal persecution from all quarters, (Romans, Greeks, Arabs and Jews) and shipwreck. But he had also witnessed in himself and others how things – and our bodies – are short-lived , unlke the spiritual virtues such as Truth and Love, which live on. We walk on by faith, not sight.

David Harmsworth