SHADYSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Our God, these days we are taught that seeing is believing.  But you have always had your doubts about that.  Your scriptures teach us that we don’t actually believe what we see.  Rather, we see what we believe.

So if I truly believe that you are present in this conflicted world that has fallen so far from the paradise you created for us, then I should be able to see you here in the mess with us.  That’s what the author of this text believes faith does for us.  I get that.  But it only makes me pray to you for such faith, because I cannot muster it up on my own.

Open my eyes.  Let me see what your Son was literally dying to give us.  I just need to see that you are near.  Amen.