Living By What You Can’t See

And the Lord said, “Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more. Luke 12:42-48

Don't run through a glass door even though you can't see it.

Just because your master is away, it doesn’t mean you get to play. Just because you can’t see something, it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. The more you are aware of the things that you can't see, the better you are able to navigate in the world around you. The more you work diligently while your master is not around, the more likely you are to continue working diligently when your master is around. Everything you do creates a habit that will lead you into more diligence or more laziness. Just because you can’t see the formed habit doesn’t mean it is not there.

Nothing in life is neutral. It’s either healthy or cancerous. 

Just because something looks healthy doesn’t mean that it is healthy, and just because something looks poisonous doesn’t mean that it is. To know if something is poisonous or healthy, you have to know the things you can’t see about it—its chemical properties and the plant it came from. Without knowing about the things you can’t see, you aren’t able to know how to use the things you can see. Everything you do and everything you consume either adds to your life or subtracts from it, even though often you cannot immediately see the adding or subtracting.

Choose fasting rather than eating what’s bad for you. 

Nothing you eat is neutral; it is either good for you or bad for you. If you are hungry and get off the freeway for some quick food but the only restaurant you can find serves bugs and poison, you should obviously choose fasting rather than eating there. When you know the unseen things about a restaurant—like how many people get food poisoning after eating there—then you are able to determine if the food they serve is healthy or unhealthy.  Everything you consume is either good for you or bad for you and either adds or takes away from your health. When you live by what you can’t see, even if it looks good or bad, you are able to make healthy choices.