A Devotion from A. W. Tozer

In our day, we send reason ahead on its little short legs and faith never follows. Nobody

marvels, because the whole business can be explained. I have always claimed that a believing

Christian is a miracle, and at the precise moment that you can fully explain him, you have a

Christian no longer!

I have read the efforts of William James to psychologize the wonders of God’s workings

in the human life and experience. But the genuine child of God is someone who cannot be

explained by human reasoning.

In this relationship with Jesus Christ through the new birth, something takes place by

the ministry of the Spirit of God which psychology cannot explain. This is why I must contend

that faith is the highest kind of reason after all, for faith goes straight into the presence of God.

The reason that faith is so important an element in every true life is simply because it links our

nothingness with God Himself.