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What Is Faith?
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1).
“Have faith in God” (Mark 11:22).
Faith is something which people exercise in a hundred ways every day of their lives. Whenever you sit down on a chair, climb a ladder, or fly in a plane, it is an act of faith. You trust the chair, the rungs of the ladder, and the pilot of the plane. Faith is as simple as hanging your coat or hat on a hook. You trust the hook and depend on it to hold your coat or hat. The faith of which the Bible speaks is just as simple as that. Christ is its object, and to have faith in Him is to rely on Him or count on Him for that which your soul needs. The same thing is expressed in other ways in Scripture: “look,” “come,” “take,” “receive” — all these mean very much the same as “trust” or “believe.” You may feel your faith is small, but the great point is not how much faith you have, but does it rest on the right object? If so, though it may be small, yet it is faith of the right kind. “If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you” (Luke 17:6).
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