Sunday, October 31

The nature of saving faith

The nature of saving faith demands more than facts as a ground — not less, but more.… Saving faith is not mere receiving of facts. It is the receiving of Christ as the one who died for us and rose again, and is infinitely glorious, and wondrously beautiful, and supremely valuable. Therefore, the ground of such faith must be the spiritual sight of such glory and beauty and value.

— John Piper
Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 73