Faith in God Never Adds up to Gullibility

   By A. W. Tozer

   Then we will no longer be like children, forever
    changing our minds about what we believe because
    someone has told us something different or has
    cleverly lied to us and made the lie sound like the truth.
                                                       -- Ephesians 4:14

        Let me tell you of the dangerous logic of the gullible
     Christian who does not realize that it may be fatal to
     believe everything that happens to come along!

        I have met Christians with no more discrimination
     than the ostrich.  Because they must believe certain
     things, they feel that they must believe everything.

        Because they are called  upon  to  accept  the  invisible
     they  go right  on to  accept  the incredible.  God can and
     does work miracles: therefore, everything that passes for
     a miracle must be of God!

        God  has  spoken  to  man­therefore they feel that
     every man who claims to have had a revelation  from
     God  must  be  accepted  as  a  prophet.  Whatever  is
     unearthly  must  be  heavenly;  whatever  cannot  be
     explained must be received as divine.  The prophets
     were rejected,  therefore  everyone who is  rejected
     is a prophet.  The saints  were misunderstood, they
     agree, so everyone who is misunderstood is a saint.

        This is the  kind  of  dangerous  logic that can be
     as injurious as unbelief itself!

        Faith is at the root of  all true worship and without
     faith it is impossible to please God.  But  faith  never
     means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as
     far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
     Faith engages the Person and promises of God and rests
     upon them with perfect assurance­and of such faith we
     can never have too much.

        Credulity, on the other hand, never honors God, for it
     shows  as  great  a  readiness  to  believe  anybody as to
     believe God Himself!
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     Yours in Christ,
     Paul N. F.