Mental Assent 1/20 Friday faith

Another Enemy is Mental Assent.


You say, "What is it?" It is mentally accepting the Word as true, but not acting upon it.

It is admiring the Word.

You may have been called a Fundamentalist, and you may have confessed that you believe the Word from Genesis to Revelation; but when it comes to acting on it, you have never done it.

You are like one that knows all the ingredients that are in a certain dish that you have for dinner.

You are able to diagnose very feature about it. But you don't eat it. It does you no good.

The Mental Assenter is a failure, a beautiful failure, but a failure.

I say, "Is that Word true?" And you declare, "It is true. I believe every word from Genesis to Revelation." You are self-deceived.

The Believer is a "doer of the Word and not a hearer only."

Jesus described him in that last illustration of the Sermon on the Mount. The Doer was the one who dug deep, went down to the rock and built his house thereon. The Mental Assenter built on the sand.



-- E. W. Kenyon