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Blind Faith?

My parents and I were having a discussion a few days ago about the term "blind faith." One of them (I can't remember which) asked me what I thought of the term. My response was simple: blind faith is an unnecessary redundancy.

The Bible defines faith in Hebrews 11:1 as being the "substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen." Not seen. In other words, faith is a belief for which there is no tangible basis. Therefore, faith in its truest, most Biblical sense is always blind.

This is probably why Jesus was always chastising the disciples for being men of "little faith." Rather than believing that Jesus by God had the power to do anything, even calm the winds and the seas, they chose rather to fear because they had never seen anyone control nature.

Isn't that what we do even today? We believe in God for the things that we know He can handle. Maybe we've been through a terrible illness so we know God is a healer, but we've never personally seen him work in the financial arena, so we fret about that. Or maybe we've seen God provide time and time again, but when it comes to delivering us from a difficult situation on the job, we think that we have to handle it on our own.

The funny thing is, as Christian, we would never actually say that we think that God can't handle our situation. We just act like it, by failing to wait on Him and taking matters into our own hands. Essentially, we behave as though faith controls up to a certain point and beyond that we've got to do things ourselves.

What would life be like if we took the seemingly inconvenient path of "blind" faith? How would your life be different if you really let God work things out on your behalf? And if your life would indeed be different if you placed all your faith in God, then perhaps you should make the change. Let's heed the words of the Master and simply, "Have faith in God." (Mark 11:22).


Have faith in God, He's on His throne,
Have faith in God, He watches over His own;
He cannot fail, He must prevail,
Have faith in God, Have faith in God.

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