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No Such Thing As Blind Faith

There is no such thing as blind faith. My faith in God is based on my experience of God. “Faith leads to experience, and experience to hope…until his love is shed abroad in our hearts.” The love of the Holy Spirit shed in our hearts is the greatest of all rewards. Sweeter than honey. I first came to believe when I felt the Holy Spirit tugging at my heart at the age of nine. Yes, felt is a dirty word in religious circles, but I felt Him in my spirit. I answered, and shortly thereafter I had my first experience of God‘s love. Jesus hunted down faith like a hound dog hunts his prey. With laser-like focus he moved through the towns and villages seeking a faith target. He sought someone with whom he could engineer a God sized encounter. He wants to reveal God to us in three dimensional space. After healing the blind man he said,  “Go and tell what has happened to you.” Go and show them as evidence that God is good. God is alive. Before raising Lazarus from the dead, Jesus told Martha,