Walk By Faith

There is a song entitled Walk By Faith by Jeremy Camp which I believe was written after a very tragic personal loss. The lines that stand out to me are:

I will walk by faith

Even when I cannot see

I think of the Old Testament prophet Daniel who was taken captive into exile as a teenager. As a member of the evil and wicked Nebuchadnezzar's court, Daniel was likely "shifted into neutral" to live out the remainder of his life as a eunuch. When he was older, he was tossed into a den of starving lions.

None of this happened because of bad behavior or lack of faith on the part of Daniel. In fact, it was quite the contrary. But he never cried out, "Why is this happening to me? What have I done to deserve this?" Instead he prayed daily, facing Jerusalem, and trusted God.

When the 70 year exile was up and his people allowed to return home, Daniel was likely too old to make the journey; he would have been in his mid-80's and it's a r-e-a-l-l-y long walk from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Throughout his life, Daniel walked by faith, even though he had no way of seeing the extent to which he was being used by God.

We need to walk by faith also, even though we too cannot see what God is up to.