Page 17 - Evidence of Things Unseen

(Amplified Bible)

The apostle Paul is declaring here that God both gives us the desire to do His will, and
the power to accomplish it. Oftentimes God will move us to do a thing and we will not even
know that it is God leading us. We may merely have a desire arise in our spirit, and perhaps
later the Lord will show us what it was He was doing, though many times I am convinced
we do things and never know what God has done. We may speak a word to someone, and
it is just what they needed to hear. They may be convicted, or encouraged, or consoled, or
receive direction, and we are unaware of what just transpired within them.
It is necessary that those who would walk in faith should believe that God is ever
present with them and that He is ordering their steps. I would be surprised if one out of a
hundred Christians in this hour have such a conception. There is such a mass of Christians
who are walking by sight and reason, judging all matters in the same way that their lost
neighbors judge. They are leaning on the same arm of the flesh for all of their needs. They
resort to the same carnal and worldly means to deal with the trials and tribulations that
they encounter. In doing so they have succumbed to this deadly form of Pharisaism. By
their actions they declare, “Is God even among us?”
“But the righteous man shall live by faith” and “apart from faith it is impossible to
please God.”