Too many of us have very poor and/or limited vision about what is happening around us. While we live in a predominately physical world, that is not all that exists. Consider the following: human beings are composed of three parts – spirit, soul, and body. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 says, “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Notice these three things are mentioned in order of how they should dominate our life. Yet many of us have gotten them totally out of order and therefore experience things in this life that we should not have to experience.
Since the Fall in the Garden of Eden every person born has been born with a propensity to sin. They are born with a spirit that has no divine life and light in it. Their will & emotions are bent toward doing what they want to do regardless of the fact that it may be contrary to what God wants. Their mind too often thinks along lines that are not best for success or happiness in this life. And the body is subject to death, sickness, and soon wears out after a few decades.
The Apostle Paul tells us that there is a life and reality that cannot be seen with the natural eyes nor comprehended with an unrenewed mind. He said in 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, “Therefore we do not lose heart, even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” This was addressed to born-again believers in Jesus Christ.
Those who have made Jesus their Lord have His life within their spirit. Their mind is being renewed by the written word of God – the Bible. Their body can experience divine healing and life-sustaining power to live out their days with overflowing strength.
They now have the ability to see what is happening in the natural realm and the supernatural ability to see and comprehend what is beyond the natural realm. What they see in the spirit realm gives them strength, wisdom, authority, and power to live victoriously in a world that is headed the wrong way and allows them to be light and salt to it!