2 Corinthians 5:6-8 -- On Faith and Sight

"Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."
2 Corinthians 5:6-8


The idea here seems to be that confidence comes from faith and not from sight/physical evidence, which makes sense... God's spiritual confidence, which is always true, trumps confidence based only in physical sight, which sometimes fails... frailties and other things that we can't seen can undermine that kind of confidence.

Today, let's work on having faith and confidence in God, knowing that his word is something that we can use to anchor our lives, unlike our own fallible observations. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't look, and learn, but as Paul says there, we should prioritize the spiritual over the physical and trust the Lord and talk to him about everything we observe and learn, to put it correctly into the larger context of God's creations, and so that God can also teach us about things that are unseeable and unknowable without him.