The Difference Between Faith and Fideism

God's Faithfulness

Junk Drawer - Previous Publications
Written by Douglas Wilson
Sunday, 01 April 2012


"If we are faithless, He will remain faithful, for He cannot disown Himself" (2 Tim. 2:13, NIV).

When we first catch a glimpse of the faithfulness of God, faith is the natural response. Faith is not the ladder which we climb in order to discover the faithfulness of God. It is the other way around. God is faithful, period. When we see that, faith is the natural response.

A misunderstanding concerning this shows up in many of our expressions. One that pertains to those in Christian work is the expression "living on faith." If that were strictly true, many of us would be in trouble. We do not "live on faith," we "live on faithfulness."