The Man Who Found the Invisible Force

In 1845, Michael Faraday stood before the Royal Institution in London and demonstrated something no one had ever seen — because it could not be seen. By placing iron filings near a magnet, he revealed the invisible lines of force that permeated empty space. The scientific world scoffed at first. How could something invisible exert such power? Yet Faraday, a devout member of the Sandemanian church who read his Bible every morning, insisted that unseen forces were the very architecture of reality. He was right. His discovery of electromagnetic fields eventually explained how light travels, how atoms hold together, and how the universe maintains its structure. Without these invisible forces, every molecule would fly apart in an instant.

Faraday once told a colleague that his faith and his science pointed to the same truth: what is most real is often what cannot be seen. He believed the God who spoke creation into existence also sustained it moment by moment.

The apostle Paul proclaimed this very reality about Christ in his letter to the Colossians. Jesus is the image of the invisible God — the One who makes the unseen Creator knowable. All things were created through Him and for Him. And like those electromagnetic fields Faraday uncovered, Christ is the invisible force holding every atom, every star, every human heart in its place. He is before all things, and in Him, all things hold together — not as a passive framework, but as a living, sustaining Presence.