{"id":866,"date":"2017-03-20T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/?p=866"},"modified":"2017-02-12T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T23:00:37","slug":"walking-by-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/throughthelensoffaith\/2017\/03\/walking-by-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Walking by Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite passages says &#8220;We walk by faith and not by sight.&#8221; It can be very comforting at times when I can&#8217;t really see where I&#8217;m going in my journey. So much of life is a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>If we walk by faith, we are sure to have the best guide along the way. If we walk by sight only, we may miss things that God wants us to see.<\/p>\n<p>By walking with faith, we are walking with a different set of eyes. 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