“The Evidence Says You Should Trust God”

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Faith necessarily has blind spots in it. That is why we cannot walk by faith and by sight at the same time (2 Cor. 5:7). But there is a surprising amount of evidence for believing in Christ. This past week, we enjoyed a great series of lectures on the evidences for a designer that can be found in the natural world. Those evidences bolster our faith, and I hope that you found them both helpful and enjoyable.

Take a moment to consider another interworking of evidence and faith. Just as evidence of intelligent design drives us to believe in a designer, evidence of spiritual deliverance drives us to follow a Deliverer!

James 2:17 tells us that “faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.” That is not to say that works will justify anyone before God, but it is to say that faith simply isn’t faith unless it is active and obedient faith. It is this kind of faith which I believe must also be based on evidence—the evidence of deliverance. Every single time that God has told his people to behave in a particular way by faith, it has been best for them. Every single time God has made a promise to his people, he has kept it. Every single time that God has explained a situation in a  way that seemed incorrect to men, God has been right. Every single time a challenge has arisen against God, he has overcome it. Every single time he has attempted to give life, he has had the ability to do it.

Though it is perhaps not the kind of evidence of which we normally think, all the occasions upon which God has proven himself faithful ought to give us ample reason to trust him and to simply do what he says. If he has made it work in the past, do we not believe he will make it work in the future? We trust that the sun will rise every morning simply because we have seen it do so without fail for so long. The evidence of its history compels us to believe such. Does the evidence of God’s history not compel us even more to believe in him and to act in complete faith—to walk by that, and not by sight?
 

- Dan Lankford, mininster

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