Blind Faith: No Such Thing

Have you ever had someone tell you that believing the gospel is taking a leap of faith in the dark? Love, they say, is blind- and so is faith. You kind of shut your eyes and believe but deep down you know there’s nothing there but a myth of the collective unconscious. It’s like wishing on a star, or dropping a penny in a wishing well. It takes the edge off, but there’s nothing substantive behind it to back it up.

I respectfully disagree. Faith is substantive and evidentiary to those who have it. What is unseen and intangible is more real than the material, tangible universe. Truth and facts are not necessarily the same. Faith has got to be in something; in someone. Faith for faith’s sake doesn’t make any sense. Away with inspiration that says “believe” and then offers no definition as to what or whom we should actually trust in. If it’s yourself you’re trusting in say so. If it’s other people, then say so. But I knew an old mother who told me shortly before she died, “The arms of flesh will fail you, you dare not trust your own.”

When we step out on faith, we’re standing on the the infallible word of an invisible, immutable God who runs an inconquerable kingdom out of His infinite might. As we walk, He creates the ground under our feet to keep us from falling. Sort of like following the yellow brick road, one brick at a time. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Heb. 11:1)

Faith is a leap, but it’s not blind. We can see just fine. Faith is about believing what cannot be perceived by the natural eye or mind and conducting oneself in the light of that conviction. Without a vision that propells movement and a confidence that defies the odds, you might have ritual, hope or luck, but you haven’t got faith.

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