The Quality of True Faith Is Moral, Not Mental

By A. W. Tozer

I will bring the blind by away that they knew not;
I will lead them in paths that they have not known
. . . . Isaiah 42:16

    Sometimes we are prone to blame ourselves for
unbelief when our trouble is nothing more than
inability to visualize.  There are some truths set forth
in the Scriptures that place a great strain upon our minds.
Divine revelation assures us that certain things are true
which imagination simply will not grasp.  We believe
them but we cannot see them in the mind's eye!

    To think right we must distinguish believing from
visualizing. The two are not the same.  One is moral
and the other mental.  Unwillingness to believe proves
that men love darkness rather than light, while inability
to visualize indicates no more than lack of imagination,
something that will not be held against us at the
judgment seat of Christ.

    True faith is not the intellectual ability to visualize
unseen things to the satisfaction of our imperfect
minds; it is rather the moral power to trust Christ!

    To be unafraid when going on a journey with his
father the child need not be able to imagine events; he
need but know the father!  Jesus Christ is our all in all
we need but trust Him and He will take care of the rest.

    I have found deep satisfaction in these words of the
prophet: "I will bring the blind by a way they knew not; I
will lead them in paths they have not known: I will make
darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.
These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them"
Isa. 42:16.

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Yours in Christ,

Paul N. F.