Reason can take me to the outer edge of reality, but I must then leap and take by faith. The know-how then becomes such inner substance to you and me that, when learning a trade, for instance, we boldly adopt its name and call ourselves by it. We learn carpentry and call ourselves a carpenter. We learn medicine and call ourselves a doctor. So we see how fundamentally significant faith is to all life.
Life operates only by faith.
If this be true in the material realm, then how fundamental faith must also be in the spiritual. That is why Jesus told Nicodemus that it was no good, his coming to Him just as a teacher. Here in the things of the Spirit we use the same faith process as in our daily life. But this, of course, is not something tangible or visible which I can take hold of by reaching out my hands to receive it. This is something of the invisible world, something of the Spirit I ve reached out for.