Yesterday afternoon I watched a movie called Troll. In the first scene, a father was climbing a mountain with his young daughter. When they reached the top, he pointed across the Troll mountains and told her the old stories—how the peaks were shaped like sleeping giants. She stared and said, “I do not see anything.” Her father answered, “You want to see before you believe. But to truly see, you must believe first.”
Those words stayed with me. They reminded me of how many people approach God. They want to see Him first—proof, signs, miracles—before they believe. But God does not work that way. With God, belief opens the eyes. Faith comes first, sight comes next.
To know God, we must first see Jesus—who He is, what He has done for us, how He loves us, and how He gave His life so we could live. When we see Jesus for who He really is, something powerful happens, the Holy Spirit comes into our hearts, and from that moment on, the Holy Spirit begins to open our eyes to God’s hand in our lives.
Without faith, life looks plain. Just mountains. Just days. Just problems. But with faith, everything changes. The Holy Spirit shows us God’s fingerprints everywhere—His comfort in our pain, His strength when we are weak, His guidance when we feel lost, and His love holding us together when life feels like it is breaking apart.
C. S. Lewis said it perfectly: “I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen—not because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” Faith is not blindness. Faith is sight.
The key to life is simple:
Believe in God first… and then you will see His hand in everything.