Mental Assent

Mental Assent

This assenting to the fact that God cannot fail to help it at a crisis period and yet, at the same time, turning to the world for assistance is a dangerous symptom. Mental assent is one of the most dangerous of the enemies of a life of faith. It looks and sounds so religious. It will go so far as to say, “I believe in the verbal inspiration of the Bible. I am contending for the faith once delivered to the saints.”

Yet, they dare not act on the Word; they do not give it its place, they merely talk about its integrity. The Mental Assenter is in the gravest of danger. He is where God cannot reach him; but where Satan can enter into his inner counsel. He therefore loses his rights and privileges in Christ.

Acting On the Word

The greatest battle that any child of God will ever fight is the battle of Faith. We often wonder why it is so hard to believe God. The reason is that we are surrounded by an antagonistic atmosphere that is presided over by the enemy of all righteous¬
ness; we live in his unreal world; we are surrounded by currents of unbelief so subtle that almost one does not realize them, and so resistless that only a few ever rise above them. To believe in God for finances is a continual struggle against the materialistic currents that buffet us.

To believe in Christ for victory over sin is a battle during every hour of consciousness, with the spiritual hosts of darkness. To believe in God for the physical body when one is ill is to put un a battle against the centuries of trust in medicine. So it is not at all strange that so many break down in their faith-life and we should not be harsh or censorious against those who fail.

The Wonderful Name of Jesus – E. W Kenyon
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