God and the material world

Isaiah 60:2

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the Lord will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.

Have you ever wondered why God, who is a spirit, bothered to create a natural, material world? There must be something about the glory of the unseen that can only be revealed through the seen realm, because when God arises in our lives, His glory won’t remain a private, church affair, it will be SEEN upon us!

In God’s economy, there has to be a connection between unseen things in the spiritual realm and what we see here in the natural world. That is why, when Jacob left Laban’s house after fourteen years of working for him, having amassed many flocks for himself by faith, which compensated for the tricks Laban had played on him concerning his wages, Laban’s sons…