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SearchDeep Faith Eliminates Fear
In the earthly life of Jesus, religion was a living experience, a direct and personal movement
from spiritual reverence to practical righteousness. The faith of Jesus bore the transcendent fruits
of the divine spirit. His faith was not immature and credulous like that of a child, but in many
ways it did resemble the unsuspecting trust of the child mind. Jesus trusted God much as the
child trusts a parent. He had a profound confidence in the universe — just such a trust as the
child has in its parental environment. Jesus‘ wholehearted faith in the fundamental goodness of
the universe very much resembled the child‘s trust in the security of its earthly surroundings. He
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depended on the heavenly Father as a child leans upon its earthly parent, and his fervent faith
never for one moment doubted the certainty of the heavenly Father‘s overcare. He was not
disturbed seriously by fears, doubts, and skepticism. Unbelief did not inhibit the free and original
expression of his life. He combined the stalwart and intelligent courage of a full-grown man with
the sincere and trusting optimism of a believing child. His faith grew to such heights of trust that
it was devoid of fear.
The faith of Jesus attained the purity of a child‘s trust. His faith was so absolute and undoubting
that it responded to the charm of the contact of fellow beings and to the wonders of the universe.
His sense of dependence on the divine was so complete and so confident that it yielded the joy
and the assurance of absolute personal security. There was no hesitating pretense in his religious
experience. In this giant intellect of the full-grown man the faith of the child reigned supreme in
all matters relating to the religious consciousness. It is not strange that he once said, ―Except you
become as a little child, you shall not enter the kingdom.‖ Notwithstanding that Jesus‘ faith was
childlike, it was in no sense childish.