If I am blind, I cannot distinguish color, or if I lack the faculty of hearing, I cannot enjoy music. Yet music and color are in fact real things, and their reality is unaffected by whether or not I am able to appreciate them. Now we are considering here the things which, though they are not seen, are eternal and therefore real. Of course we cannot substantiate divine things with any of our natural senses; but there is one faculty which can substantiate the "things hoped for," the things of Christ, and that is faith.

Faith makes the real things become real in my experience....

- Watchman Nee