True Believers in Christ Jesus are some radical folks! They can really stir folks up with their contentious views on the life of mankind in his pursuit of stuff and things and the "ever evasive FLESH!"
FAITH in direct opposition to COMMON SENSE is FANATICISM; and COMMON SENSE in direct opposition to FAITH is RATIONALISM. The "faith life" brings the two polar perspectives into confrontation with one another and, ultimately, right relation. Common sense is not faith and faith is not common sense. Common sense exists in the "natural realm" while faith permeates the "spiritual realm." There is a direct correlation between "impulse" and common sense; while faith is manifested entirely out of "inspiration" through the person and power of the Holy Spirit.
When the Lord God speaks to us by His Spirit, it is "pure revelation sense" not common sense. Revelation sense can reach the shores safely where common sense floats aimlessly in the deep waters; stranded without hope of survival or rescue. FAITH must be "tested" (the Believer must be roasted, stewed and barbecued) before the "reality" of FAITH is manifested in the HEART of the Believer. It is ONLY the power of God that can transform faith into reality for His children. In fact, it is His "prime objective."
The common-sense life is diametrically opposed to the faith-life whereby every detail of the rational mind can be refuted by the spiritual mind. Faith is a dynamic principle within the Kingdom of God. The faith-filled Believer looks "crazy" through the lens of a "gotta see it to believe it" perspective. I call this "head faith" (something that you won't believe until you see it) which is always a struggle to contend with.
It is the power and INTENT of God to "educate our FAITH" because the nature of faith is to make its object real. Until we KNOW JESUS, God will always be an abstract, distant entity that we can NEVER faith in. But once the Believer steps out of the sense realm into the faith realm, he will begin to HEAR CHRIST and he will know that He is real and that the "unseen thing" is more real than the "tangible thing" that he can smell, taste, see, feel and touch...
FAITH is the "whole man" rightly connected to God by the "dunamis power" of the Spirit of Christ Jesus!
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