LIFE IN CHRIST: chap. 5, part 4

Lent with Fr Harton

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CHAPTER 5: FAITH (part 4)

But ultimately faith has to do not with truths but with Truth. The mysteries which faith makes real to us are not discoverable by human effort, they are revealed by God, and the ultimate act of faith is not in them but in Him. When our Lord said to the lind men, “Believe ye that I am able to do this?” He was fixing their attention not upon the act of healing but upon Himself, the emphasis is on the personal pronoun. He was able because He was God and, however dim their perception of His Person may have been, the reply of the blind men was an act of faith in that Person. So, then, faith is in its essence an attitude of soul towards a person. This comes out very clearly in the conversation at the foot of the Mount of Transfiguration. The faith which our Lord there said was the condition of the disciples’ working the works of Christ was a personal thing, an attitude of soul towards Himself, forming a spiritual link between Him and them so that when that link because loosened the power departed.