Life
In Christ Is
This Thing Called Faith A brilliant young chemist was chatting with his neighbor about Christianity. Said the young chemist, “ I believe only in what I can see and weigh and compound.” Said his neighbor, “ Then give me a cubic inch of your mind and five pounds of the love you have for your wife.” Well, the young chemist got the point his neighbor was trying to put across. There are a good many things in life that we can’t see and weigh and compound. And because we cannot they are no less real. We simply accept them by faith. You recall the Bible says, “ Faith forms a solid ground for what is hoped for, a conviction of unseen realities” (Heb. 11:1, Berkeley Version). Now even though we are constantly living by faith in the secular realm we often find it difficult to do the same in the spiritual realm. How often we say that we’d like a right relationship with God but we just don’t have enough faith. This is a very real problem but one I don’t think we need worry about. The stumbling block here is that we’re making faith too important. I know some folks who seem to major in having faith in faith. Which of course amounts to nothing. Let’s not worry about having faith. Remember the data of the Christian faith is a historic fact. We are not to have faith in a philosophy of life or a beautiful set of ideas. We are to have faith in a Person. It is Jesus Christ in whom we are to place our faith. The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the way and the truth and the life and apart from Him there can be no salvation. Faith is our response, our total response, to the Person of Jesus Christ. It involves our will, our intellect, our emotion. The Bible says, “ But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” And because this is true our faith can never be neutral. We either receive Him or we do not. There is no neutral ground. We are constantly deciding for or against Jesus Christ. How do we get this faith to believe on Christ? Well, we might as logically ask how a child has faith in his parents. There is no deliberate, conscious effort on the child’s part. He simply responds to the love of the parent. Jesus Christ asks no more. He wants us to use nothing more than simple, child-like faith when we come to Him. He is the only One that understands and can do something about the deep need of your inner self. Won’t you take this simple step of child like faith and in doing so find that in Jesus Christ is abundant, overflowing life? — L. H. (If you desire more help on what it means to become a Chris tian, you are invited to write The Editors, The King’s Business, 55 8 So. Hope St., Los Angeles 17, Calif.) 13
Perhaps your relationship with God isn’t always what you ’d like it to be. Each month this special page is written to help seeking hearts find that in Christ is abundant life. When you ’ve read this page won ’t you clip and share it with a friend?
JULY, 1955
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