Written by Dallas Willard(1935-2013), an American philosopher, speaker and writer on spiritual formation. This is an excerpt from his book. This is an excerpt from his book “Life Without Lack.”
Faith—trust—is the key that unlocks our readiness to receive God’s sufficiency in our lives. Given how we commonly use these words today, it is helpful to replace all occurrences of faith in the Bible with trust…To have faith in God is simply to trust God, to rely upon him in the face of all fears. The best known definition in the Bible is this: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). Substance means what stands under something (sub-stance or under-standing). Faith is the substance of things hoped for in this way: when we have faith, we act in relationship with God to bring what we hope for into reality. Faith is also “the evidence of things not seen.” What are the things not seen? In the same passage a few lines later, we are told that “the worlds seen were not made of things which are visible. The phrase “things not seen” refers to the word, or the energy of God in action. When we have faith, that is sure evidence that the word of the unseen God is active in us. Faith is a gift; God creates it in our hearts.
For by grace you have been saved through faith [trust]. [Ephesians 2:8]
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