Faith “sees what is invisible” (2 Cor. 4:18) and understands (i.e., accepts) that the “present form of this world is passing away” for purposes that are good (1 Cor. 7:31). It affirms that underlying the surface appearance of life (chayei sha’ah) is a deeper reality (chayei olam) that is ultimately real, abiding, and ultimately designed for God’s redemptive love to be fully expressed. In this world we must “see through” a mirror (i.e., indirectly) to begin to see the dawn of our eternal home; but one day we will behold God panim el panim (פָּנִים אֶל־פָּנִים), “face to face” (1 Cor. 13:12). In the meantime, faith beholds the invisible light, the truth of God’s love that overcomes all the powers of darkness, hate, and fear…. “I believe. I believe in the sun even when it is not shining; I believe in love even when feeling it not; and I believe in God, even when God is silent” (from an anonymous poem found on the wall of a cellar in Cologne, Germany, where some Jews hid from the Nazis).
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