God does not require a blind faith. Rather, scripture consistently portrays God as first providing good reasons for obeying or trusting before calling someone to respond.
Consider Noah. Before Noah built an ark by faith, God spoke to him. By speaking to Noah, God provided Noah good reason to build.
Consider Israel. It was only after God unleashed 10 powerful plagues on Egypt and divided the Red Sea for Israel to pass through on dry ground that God at Mt. Sinai called Israel to obediently follow his covenantal laws. They had good reason to comply.
What about those generations of Israelites who did not witness God’s power? Did God abandoned them to nothing more than a blind faith? Did they have reason for placing their hope in God and obeying him?
Consider Daniel and his friends. They experienced Judah’s enemies overrunning Jerusalem and were led away as captives. As they walked toward Babylon they had not personally witnessed God’s power. Was their faith a blind faith? Not at all.
God had already acted in history. Less than a hundred years before Nebuchadnezzar had marched into Jerusalem, God had revealed his power in an amazing way as he fulfilled his prophetic word against the king of Assyria (Isaiah 37:33-37). Daniel and his friends had good reason to trust and obey God even though they had not yet witnessed his power.
Likewise, God is not calling us to respond with the blind faith. God has already raised Christ from the grave and provided proof of this through many witnesses (1 Corinthians 15:4-8; Acts 13:30-31).
Furthermore, we have evidence of God’s existence and nature. As Paul observed, "For his (God’s) invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse” (Romans 1:20). From the time of creation God has provided us reason to honor and place our hope in God. God is able.
Do we have real reason to place our hope in what God has promised? “…it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, …” (Hebrews 6:18-20).
Do we have real reason to obey God and place our hope in what God has promised? Yes!
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