Believing Simply & Directly

“It really wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that this faith, this direct reaching out to touch the reality of God, and to depend upon it, is an absolute essential for the Christian life. 'Without faith it is impossible to please him,' said the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews. I don’t think that is meant to be a threat so much as a plain statement of fact. We don’t really begin to live our lives with God until we exercise this faculty which God has implanted in all of us, which the New Testament calls 'faith.' Have we got the courage to break through our habitual ways of thinking and believe like the centurion, simply and directly, in the power of God?” 

J.B. Phillips, Good News