Where does unbelief COME from?
I have included this question in the F.A.Q. not because it is a question that is conciously asked often, but rather because, though folks don’t usually think to ask this question outwardly, it is a most disturbing question to anyone honestly facing the trial [strengthening] of Faith! If we stop to think of it, were it not for UNBELIEF, Faith would be ‘OUT OF BUSINESS’! That is, it is the Work of Living Faith to OVERCOME unbelief. The fact that this observation escapes most is not an indication of its obscurity, as many might suppose. But rather, an indication of (1) our unwillingness to be honest in confronting those challenges to our Belief/Receit/Acknowledgment of God’s Factual, Living Word – or of (2) the ignorance of our inattention. Jesus WARNS us to “WATCH!” repeatedly. Why? For what? Most ASSUME that, once they become a ‘Believer’ that they “Believe” – and that’s all there is TO it. Wrong! The Battle only BEGINS at Calvary. Oh, let me hasten to add that I do not, in any way, dim
