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What do we believe? What motive is strong enough to make us put the evidence of sense and experience in the second place, and feel the firmest certainty about things which we cannot fully comprehend? Faith differs from ordinary knowledge; it rests not on the word of man or our own faculties, but on infinite wisdom which cannot be mistaken, and perfect veracity which cannot deceive us. The integrity of Faith requires a supernatural motive as well as a supernatural object; we need to believe not only what God has revealed, but because He has revealed it. To believe divine truths simply because they please us, or because of human authority, or because they are beautiful or noble or useful, is not divine Faith. The whole structure must be supernatural; and each part must be in harmony with all the others, and with the higher order to which we are to be raised. No motive could be higher and more forcible than the motive on which God has established our faith. We have evidence that He has spoken, we are strengthened to believe His word, and then our conviction of the truths so conveyed to us is absolutely firm and secure; the invisible becomes more real to us than the visible, our interests center more in heaven than on earth, we live in familiar intercourse with God and the blessed spirits, and we pass our lives on a higher plane that is incomprehensible to those who have not the faith. Strengthen your belief in the supernatural more and more by remembering that God has spoken.
