Living in a Reality I Can’t Fully See
Living in a reality I can’t fully see means I need help to walk through life properly.
I need Someone who can see to walk with me.
How can I trust the God I cannot see to lead me through a reality I cannot see?
Maybe trust is simply deciding whose eyes I will rely on—mine or His.
So I want to learn to trust God instead of my limited human understanding.
As I wrote that sentence, two things immediately came to mind.
The first was the fear of the Lord.
Scripture says,
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”
I’ve spent a lot of time studying the fear of the Lord, and I’ve come to believe it isn’t primarily about being afraid of God.
Instead, I think it’s worshipful respect arising from an awareness of God’s power, wisdom, and authority—leading us to humbly trust and submit to Him as we acknowledge our own limitations as created beings.
If that’s true, then the fear of the Lord becomes the foundation for trust.
The second part of the verse caught my attention too:
“…the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”
That doesn’t sound like merely collecting information about God.
The kind of knowledge Scripture is describing is relational. It grows through walking with Him.
In Scripture, understanding isn’t simply having more information. It’s learning to see reality more and more as God sees it—to recognize truth, reject deception, and live accordingly.
If I’m trying to walk through a reality I cannot fully see…
That’s exactly the kind of understanding I need.
Then another passage came to mind.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways know Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
(Literal sense of Proverbs 3:5–6)
Our English translations often say, “submit to Him” or “acknowledge Him.” But the underlying Hebrew verb is yadaʿ—the same rich word often translated know.
That fascinated me.
In modern English, knowing is mostly intellectual, while submitting sounds like forced obedience.
But in Proverbs, they’re intertwined.
The invitation isn’t merely to obey a distant authority.
It’s to know Him so personally, so relationally, involving Him in every area of life, that trusting and following Him become the natural response.
So how do I learn to trust the invisible God to see for me when I can’t?
I start with reverent fear and awe.
The fear of the Lord is admitting that my eyes are limited while God’s are not.
Trust is choosing to rely on His eyes instead of my own.
Wisdom is gradually learning to see reality as He sees it.
The fear of the Lord gives me the humility to admit I need God’s perspective.
Knowing God gives me confidence that His perspective is trustworthy.
Trust leads me to rely on His understanding instead of my own.
And as I walk with Him, I gradually learn to see reality through His eyes.
That’s why wisdom in Scripture isn’t merely accumulated knowledge.
It’s a transformed way of seeing reality—and therefore a transformed way of living.
