Rick Warren writes:
In the 1960s, the Russians sent the first cosmonaut into outer space. He circled the earth, and when he came back down, he did a press conference and said, “I searched the heavens, and I looked for God, and I did not see him anywhere. Therefore, there is no God.”

The Communists, which was an atheistic regime, said, “We now have scientific proof that there is no God.”

About six months later, John Glenn went into space, circled the earth three times on Gemini, came back down, and held a press conference.

He said, “I saw God everywhere! I saw his glory in the galaxy. I saw his splendor in the universe. I saw his majesty in the stars.”

As my husband is fond of saying, “what you see depends on where you stand.” What you understand depends on what you WANT to understand.
If you are closed, then no-one can force you open. Least of all God.

Jesus said, “Unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God” (John 3:3). This means that you can be aware of kingdom things, you can understand that you may be missing something, but you can’t see it FULLY. Not until you have accepted Jesus into your life.

Before there is spiritual transformation in your life, you’re shut off to the possibilities of what God may want to achieve in your heart.

It requires faith to do many things. We have to have faith when we sit down that the chair will hold us. We have to have faith that the pilot who flies the plane we are on, knows how to fly.

Faith is required for mundane things.

But think about this, someone who designed your chair had to have the faith it would one day hold you. They had to believe it BEFORE seeing it.
That pilot ha to believe he would one day learn to fly in order to pass his tests.

Where do you need an extra dose of faith today? Where do you need to believe BEFORE seeing?