Faith in God Never Adds up to Gullibility

By A. W. Tozer

That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro,
and carried about with every wind of doctrine. . . .
Ephesians 4:14

   Let me tell you of the dangerous logic of the gullible
Christian who does not realize that it may be fatal to
believe everything that happens to come along!

   I have met Christians with no more discrimination
than the ostrich.  Because they must believe certain
things, they feel that they must believe everything.

   Because they are called  upon  to  accept  the  invisible
they  go right  on to  accept  the incredible.  God can and
does work miracles: therefore, everything that passes for
a miracle must be of God!

   God  has  spoken  to  man---therefore they feel that
every man who claims to have had a revelation  from
God  must  be  accepted  as  a  prophet.  Whatever  is
unearthly  must  be  heavenly;  whatever  cannot  be
explained must be received as divine.  The prophets
were rejected,  therefore  everyone who is  rejected
is a prophet.  The saints  were misunderstood, they
agree, so everyone who is misunderstood is a saint.

   This is the  kind  of  dangerous  logic that can be
as injurious as unbelief itself!

   Faith is at the root of  all true worship and without
faith it is impossible to please God. But  faith  never
means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as
far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.
Faith engages the Person and promises of God and rests
upon them with perfect assurance---and of such faith we
can never have too much.

   Credulity, on the other hand, never honors God, for it
shows  as  great  a  readiness  to  believe  anybody as to
believe God Himself!

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.