The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

228 THE MAN BORN BLIND
the fact, and it is enough for me. He hath opened
mine eyes.
Now, there is no getting over that Christian evidence.
A man or woman who has any fact like that,
any fact at all like that to bring forward in witness of
Christ's power, is clad in fire-proof and shot-proof
armour against all the thrusts of sceptics and the
weapons of unbelief. You may call in question our
Saviour's miracles until the time comes when He has
worked a truly miraculous change in you, and then
all questioning is at an end. You may think that the
story of His Resurrection and risen life is beset with
difficulties, doubtful and improbable, until His loving
power lays hold of you, and creates in you new
thoughts and emotions, and then all the difficulties
vanish, and the risen Christ is
saw and held Him.
as real to you as if you
People rarely question the truth of Christianity, if
Christian faith has done something for them great
and unmistakable. If you find people telling you
that they are not at all sure of it, or perhaps confidently
declaring that there is nothing in it, you may
be sure that they have always been outside it, they
have never opened their hearts to it,
never put themselves
under its influence. There is nothing in it to
them, because they have kept it at arm's-length and
looked at it from a distance. There are thousands of
people who apparently give
up religion, they fling it
off, they learn even to speak of it with contempt.
But most of them have had no religion to give up, they
have had nothing but a number of views and opinions
which they wore as a garment is worn. Their faith
never acted as a lever in their lives, or as a healing