I'll get on the plane. I'll invest myself in the things I believe to be true. That is biblical faith. If faith is a blind leap in the dark, if faith has no concern for the facts, you're in trouble. Friends, Christianity is not denying reality.
Some people think it is.
I'm sympathetic to them because some Christians act as if faith is a kind of sanctified denial. But that isn't what biblical Christianity is about. Biblical Christians don't deny reality, they discover reality. And once they've discovered it, they act on what they've learned. Indeed, if Christianity is true, in the deepest sense of the word, then it must fit the facts of the real world.