AT 16:8{Did we ever receive the powerful fulfillment of any promise so long as we argued and reasoned, whether with our own hearts or with others, and said, "How can these things be?" Has it not always been that we had to lay down our arms and accept God's thought and God's way instead of our own ideas. and be willing that He should "speak the word only," and believe it as little children believe our promises? Then, never till then, the promise and the privilege became ours not only in potentiality but in actuality. While "the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus" is the measure of the fullness of God's promises; "according to your faith" is the appointed measure of their reception and benefit by ourselves. "Lord, increase our faith."... Before the triumph-leading of every thought can take place, there is the "casting down imaginations," or, as in the more correct margin, "reasonings." As long as we are reasoning about a promise, we never know its reality. It is not God's way. It is the humble who hear thereof and are glad. Have we not found it so? Then, how is it that we do not understand, and apply the same principle to every promise or privilege which as yet we see only afar off? It is the old way and the only way: "Who through faith... obtained promises.”
Reason unstrings the harp to see wherein the music dwells;
Faith pours a Hallelujah song, and heavenly rapture swells.
While Reason strives to count the drops that lave our narrow strand,
Faith launches o'er the mighty deep, to seek a better land.