You have been told that all things are possible to him who believes. Accepting this as a principle of your being and analyzing it to its logical conclusion, you have come to understand that faith is not a nebulous something, it is an actual idea, a definite mental attitude, a positive acceptance--not positive from the standpoint of will power or compelling things to happen, not positive from the standpoint of influencing people or things, not positive from the standpoint of holding thoughts with ever tightening grip. Your faith is positive when that which your intellect announces is no longer denied by the accumulated patters of thought held in the subconscious part of your mind. Faith is most certainly a mental attitude. When a certain man came to Jesus and said, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief, he was but showing how human we all are, how human you are, how human everyone is. From the inspiration of his hope and the enthusiasm of the occasion, standing in the light of one whose wick of life was ever kept trimmed and burning, feeling the warmth and color of its eternal glow, he exclaimed, I believe! This was a simple, sincere and enthusiastic response to the consciousness of one who had faith. But no sooner had he exclaimed, I believe! out of the enthusiasm of his will to believe, than old thought patterns arose to block his faith and he said, Help thou mine unbelief. This Thing Called you. Kindle location 1658
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