FAITH IS MORE THAN BELIEVING THE EVIDENCE

                                By A. W. Tozer
 

. . .Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written,
That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings. . . .
                                                                   Romans 3:4

       Faith based upon reason may be faith of a kind, but it is
not of the character of Bible faith, for it follows the evidence
infallibly and has nothing of a moral or spiritual nature in it.

  Neither can the absence of faith based upon reason be
held against anyone, for the evidence, not the individual,
decides the verdict.

      To send a man to hell whose only crime was to follow
evidence straight to its proper conclusion would be palpable
injustice; to justify a sinner on the grounds that he had made
up his mind according to the plain facts would be to make
salvation the result of the workings of a common law of the
mind as applicable to Judas as to Paul.

     It would take salvation out of the realm of the volitional
and place it in the mental, where, according to the Scriptures,
it surely does not belong!

     True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no
further proof than the moral perfections of the One
who cannot lie. It is enough that God said it, and if the
statement should contradict every one of the five senses
and all the conclusions of logic as well, still the believer
continues to believe!

  "Let God be true, but every man a liar," is the
language of true faith. Heaven approves such faith
because it rises above mere proofs and rests in the
bosom of God!
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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.