TEMPLE BUILDING REQUIRES RADICAL FAITH

RADICAL FAITH

By radical faith I mean believing I see myself completely filled and determined by this object of my faith. And what interests me is not myself with my faith, by He in whom I believe.’

‘… faith means trust. Trust is the act in which a man may rely on the faithfulness of Another, that His promise holds and that what He demands He demands of necessity. “I believe” means “I trust”. No more must I dream of trusting in myself, I no longer require to justify myself, to excuse myself, to attempt to save and preserve myself. This most profound effort of man to trust in himself, to see himself as in the right, has become pointless. I believe – not in myself – I believe in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

NO MORE RESERVATIONS; CONCERNS; PONDERING; ANALIYZING; OR CONCERNS. These are different ways to expressing fear, doubt and unbelief. 

‘We are given the freedom to trust in Him who deserves our trust: freedom by holding to Him who in distinction from all other authorities is and will remain faithful. We ourselves shall never be true to ourselves. Our human path is, as such, a path from one disloyalty to another; and it is the same with the ways of the gods of this world. They do not keep what they promise. … In God alone is there faithfulness, and faith is the trust that we may hold to Him, to His promise and to His guidance. To hold to God is to rely on the fact that God is there for me, and to live in this certainty. This is the promise God gives us: I am there for you.’