by Jerry Senn
If you say “I will not put my faith in something I don’t understand,” you are speaking falsehood. The truth is, we all have faith in something. In fact, if you believe you must understand before you could put your faith in something, you have placed faith in your own opinion.
It was the great Augustine who said, “If you believe what you like in the gospel and reject what you don’t like; it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
Faith is central to all of life. For example, you go to a doctor whose name you cannot pronounce and whose degrees you have never verified. He gives you a prescription you cannot read. You take it to a pharmacist you have never seen before. He gives you a chemical compound you do not understand. Then you go home and take the pill according to the instructions on the bottle. All in trusting, sincere, faith.
“Now faith is the reality (assurance) of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen … By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible … By faith Enoch was taken away, and so he did not experience death. He was not to be found because God took him away. For before he was taken away, he was approved as one who pleased God … Now without faith it is impossible to please God, since the one who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him” (Hebrews 11:1-3, 5-6, CSB).
Seeing is not faith. Faith in seeing the invisible !!!