Obedience and Faith

Some excepts from the Obedience and Faith, chapter of Charles Colson’s book, Loving God.

If faith depended on visible evidence, it wouldn’t be faith, “we walk by faith not by sight” the apostle Paul wrote.

Job 13:15

15“Though He slay me,
I will hope in Him
Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.

True faith, as Job understood, rests on the assurance that God is who He is, on that we must be willing to stake our very lives.

Knowing how susceptible we are to success’s siren call God does not allow us to see, and therefore glory in what is done through us. The very nature of the obedience He demands is that it be given without regard to circumstances or results.