“As believers, you and I live below the line, but we aren’t really below-the-line people. We are of God’s kingdom. But we live in a realm of temporal appearances that differ from what God sees in the unseen and eternal. Spiritual growth is a process of replacing temporal appearances with eternal reality, and living out of it” (Rest of the Gospel, p. 32).

We replace temporal appearances with eternal reality through faith. Faith is the access to God’s grace (Romans 5:2). But faith is also the agreement with God’s eternal, unseen truths.