It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Know
It's been said that there Are 3 Types of Faith:
“I Will Believe It When I See It” Faith. If you need to see God or have a need for God to perform magic, signs, or miracles to believe in Him, then you have no faith.
“Believer” Faith. You can believe only what you do not see. If you merely believe, then you have weak faith.
“Ph.D.” (Past Having Doubt) Faith. When you have Ph.D. faith, you are Past Having Doubt. When you know God is as real as the chair you are sitting in, the bed you are lying in, or the floor you are standing on, and you see concrete evidence of Him in all things, you have strong faith.
The Bible describes faith as “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb. 11:1 nkjv). In order to have strong faith, you must start knowing that God will provide for your needs and answer your prayers. You must literally, physically see the substance of your hopes and dreams as if they are right there in front of you.
Faith that must be seen is not faith. Just as you don’t need to see air in order to breathe, you don’t need to see God in order to have faith. Needing evidence for faith is not faith. Even when there are no miracles or magic tricks, God is still there.
If you are an “I will believe it when I see it” person or a “believer” person, you have faith that relies on sight and faith that relies on faith. Neither of these is really faith at all. The faith that relies on God is the only faith there is.
I wouldn't say I have my Ph.D in faith, but while I was going to Chiropractic college, I learned an impressive way to get started:
In anatomy and pathology classes, we were required to consider the tremendous organization of our bodies and the universe we live in. Consider the kidney. Contemplate the fact that the kidney possesses many different kinds of cells and that each cell was designed for different kinds of functions. Each of these functions plays a different role in the overall health of the kidney, and the overall life of literally the entire body. With that kind of organization, there has to be an Organizer. There has to be a God.
While few of us, if any, will ever graduate with a Ph.D., as you get to know God better, you will become more faith-ful.
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. (Heb. 11:3)
With God, All Things Are Possible,
Dr. Ben Lerner
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