The following is from A. B. Simpson's book A Larger Christian Life:
"Faith is hindered by sight and sense, and our foolish dependence upon external evidences.
"The very evidence in which we must live and grow is the unseen, and therefore all outward things must be withdrawn before we can truly believe; and as we look not at the things which are seen but on the things which are not seen, they grow real, more real than the things of sense and then God makes them real in actual accomplishment.
"But faith must first step out into the great unknown, and walk upon the water to go to Jesus, nay, walk upon air; but where was only something void it will find the rock beneath . . . .
"So faith still walks in paths of mystery ofttimes, but God will always make it plain. Is not this the hindrance to your faith that you hesitate to believe before you venture upon the naked word of promise?
"Your faith alone is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. God help us to walk by faith and not by sight!"
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