Why Faith?
Updated: December 3, 2025
How is it that God — who wants the whole world to know the truth — is “invisible”? Why doesn’t He just show Himself so that everyone will believe? He is certainly capable of doing that, like an all-powerful Cop who suddenly chooses to live on your couch. This would effectively force everyone to conform to His holiness or die on the spot. Yet this doesn’t sound like freedom, does it? It is difficult to imagine real love without freedom, and then freedom without choice, and then choice without actual contrast between the choices. Genuine saving faith is a truly free and legal choice for every person. It cannot be obstructed by background, circumstances, physical disability, or other people, since it happens in the heart (spirit, the real “you”).
Yet there is more to faith than mere choice. Faith is a powerful force with tangible effects in the physical realm. Jesus and the early disciples demonstrated this, as many of His disciples do even today. He said that a tiny amount of faith (released by words) can move a physical, literal mountain (Matthew 17:20), and he then says that with that same tiny bit of faith, “nothing will be impossible for you.” Our faith should be as developed as our flesh, even more so. Why don’t we learn how to get and use our faith as Jesus and the early disciples did? The payoff is huge! (See also Why Ask?)
(Hebrews 11:32-35, Joshua 10:12-13, Genesis 1:3, Ephesians 5:1, Mark 11:21-25 YLT)