Genuine

June 7

It’s difficult to feel genuine emotion for someone we cannot see, for someone with whom we cannot easily relate. Perhaps a departure from that fact of human feeling lies in the generosity of the American spirit which always has the ability to reach out to those in need. When disasters occur anywhere on the planet, Americans send relief.

Yet it is true that it is becoming more and more difficult to empathize with the trouble others may be going through simply because so much pain is depicted on TV and in the movies that is mere entertainment that when real tragedies occur our sensibilities have been inured to them.

Peter recognizes this human tendency to distance ourselves from those we do not know intimately and points out the one major area where it has no sway—that being the relationship of believers with the One True and Living God through Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord.

In I Peter 1:21 the Apostle says, “Though you have not seen Christ, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him, you believe in Him and are filled with inexpressible and glorious joy.” How can we account for the joy we have in the Lord we cannot see? The Third Person of the Triune Majesty, the Holy Spirit, reveals Him to us.