FAITH GOES BEYOND REASON
“Now faith brings our hopes into reality and becomes the foundation needed to acquire the things we long for. It is all the evidence required to prove what is still unseen.”
Hebrews 11:1 TPT
Just as our physical eyesight is the sense that gives us evidence of the material world, faith is the “sense” that gives us evidence of the invisible, spiritual world.
“Physical eyesight produces a conviction or evidence of visible things; faith is the organ which enables people to see the invisible things.
If you have the substance before you or if you can see it, there is no use for faith. Faith is needed for what we can’t see and can’t touch.
Because this scripture defines faith as the assurance, it also means being certain/confident about what you don’t see with your physical eyes.
Faith does not contradict reason which is the power of the mind to think, understand and form judgements logically because of what you physically see, but understand that FAITH goes beyond reason because it is not physical, it is spiritual.
The super natural exceeds the physical. Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 1 corinthians 15:45-47 and I am going to explain this furth when we look at the Hebraic meaning of the word FAITH.
Another example, is One may objectively prove the Bible is the most unique book ever published and has impacted society more than any other book. But only faith can prove that the Bible is the Word of God.
Therefore, this is a belief beyond reason but not in contradiction to reason or against reason. In other words you choose to believe that something is going to happen without having a reason that it wont even though it could be there practically speaking.
When the bible says; Faith is the substance… the evidence: Faith is not a bare belief or intellectual understanding. It is a willingness to trust in, to rely on, and to cling to which is also to find support.
Now, what are we clinging to? Or relying? Or trusting in? in this case I would like to say that we are relying on, clinging to or trusting in the word of God, which is Jesus Himself. John 1:1-2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
We choose to rely on God’s word because it is truth! John 14:6 “Jesus explained, “I am the Way, I am the Truth, and I am the Life. No one comes next to the Father except through union with me. To know me is to know my Father too.”
To be in union with the word of God is to be in union with God, to understand and know the word of God is to know God Himself.
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