Abba, Father, I …

Back to the evangelist. If i see that those things promised by the Christ are demonstrated in the life of this evangelist, my trust is now backed by some “evidence”. Lets refer to it as soft evidence.

As time goes on, if  i begin  to see the promised things happening to me to ( joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, i.e. the marks of the  ”eternal” life),  or if i sought healing and got it, i now have personal history with Christ. So  next time i am trusting Christ, the trust is no longer blind. It is backed by  ”hard evidence”.

When it comes to dealing with the Lord God, the only person i can think of who might have needed blind trust was Adam. He was at the very beginning of God’s relationship with humans. But no, even for Adam, his trust  could not  be blind, for he could look around him and see the wonders of a vast and magnificent universe unfolding. And the Lord Himself was standing next to him, telling him these words “By my hands are these things created. And they are for you”.

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.( John 1:3)

Surely Adam was sober enough to  see that he and the other animals had nothing to do with all the creation. It would have been foolish for him to tell God “prove it”.

Even though the creation itself was enough evidence of God’s ability, God’s own word was even better proof and basis for Adam’s faith in God. This proof then  propagates onwards from Adam onto his children and to Noah, Moses, Elisha, Jesus Christ.

He sent His word and healed their disease

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. ( John 1:14)

Come 0 A.D. Christ does not just appear out of nowhere and say “look i can heal you” to a people without knowledge. No.

He first shows what He could do by way of miracles and wonders as proof of His Godness. For example, He turns water into wine ( His mom’s faith is used here ), feeds thousands in the desert without only “peanuts”.

¹⁹Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. ²⁰For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. ( John 5:19-20)

And so when He tells them He is from above, they already have a history with the Father above, so they get it. That is why He can justly demand faith from them, not blind trust.

Faith comes by hearing

So how does a lost and clueless pagan in the  streets of New York City get to believe and trust Jesus Christ? How does a PhD at Harvard get to have faith in Christ? Simple. By the hearing of words from someone.

How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” ( Romans 10:14-15)

That is, a certain  evangelist who listens and is sensitive to the Spirit’s promptings is sent by the Spirit to the naked cowboy in NYC. He finds him and informs  him,

“God loves you and desires that you be part of His family”.

Now consider this with me a little more.

By the time the cowboy hears those  words from the  evangelist, don’t you think that the Lord who knows the hearts of men, already knows that the cowboy has all he needs within himself  to be able to believe and be born again, or be on the path to being born again? Yes, of course.  If you do not agree with that statement, then it means you believe that the Spirit (who sent the evangelist in the first place ) was wrong in His choice of the person to be witnessed to at that time, in this case the cowboy.

What that means is  that no one will ever stand at the judgement before the Lord Jesus Christ and say:

I did  not  believe because i am a logical human being. I  do not  believe in blind trust. How did you expect me to  know  you are  the way, the truth and the life?

It is Faith, not blind trust

I will say it as it is: The people who would use the term blind trust are those who are fighting the faith of God’s people.
It is that learned theologian who has no faith for anything and would drag you down with him. It is that PhD who wants to kick God from your heart so that he can become the god of your mind. It is that smart guy who does not understand God’s ways  and thinks he is smarter than God. It is that rebel teenage who thinks he does not need God telling him what to do.

But these people are not your problem. These people have no idea what they are doing. They may as well be very sincere in their criticism. But they are just puppets of their unseen master, who is the enemy of your soul.

The real aim  of the use of the word blind trust  is as a dagger of the  enemy meant to make the Christian who believes feel insecure and foolish in “blindly trusting”. Which normal person wants to sesn as “blindly trusting” something?
We should not  take the bait and be dissuaded from our belief in the Lord’s abilities, for we have a history with Him. To those who are perishing, faith is all foolishness and blind trust. To us, it is way to express eternal life.

So, next  time you are accused of blind trusting, counter by saying you have faith in the Lord God, the creator of the Universe. If thy accusers ( e.g. your heart)   insist that it is foolish to trust in  light of evidence to the contrary, tell them- tell your heart- that yours is “faith without seeing”.

Will they suddenly accept your version of events? No, they will laugh. They will laugh, when you say of your illness “i look sick,  but i am healed”. Well,  they laughed when Jesus said of the dead girl, that she was asleep:

²⁴he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him. ²⁵After the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.  ( Matthew 6:23-25)