The human mind needs, and must have, a direct approach to God, to this invisible Presence we call Life, and to this Divine Being we call Spirit. It is natural for us to reach out from our ignorance to Its enlightenment, from our weakness to Its strength, from our darkness to Its light. We feel and know that the Spirit is right where we are. We know that if we lean on It and let It operate through us, all will be well.

It is more intelligent to believe in God than to disbelieve in Him. It is a foolish person who denies the Divine Presence. Perhaps we are all foolish, since we are so often denying Its availability. Somewhere along the line we shall have to surrender our weakness to Its strength, our fear to Its faith, our lack to Its abundance.

Are we afraid that this might be too religious? Not unless we believe that surrendering our will to the laws of nature is too religious. It all depends on what we mean by "religion." After all, religion is not a creed or a dogma. It is a way of living, a way of thinking and believing. There have been thousands of religions throughout the ages. They have come and gone and changed. But the fundamental thing running through all of them has been a belief in something greater than we are.

This belief is intelligent because everywhere in nature we see the operation of a limitless Intelligence and Power, holding everything in place, producing everything, ourselves included. We must be some part of this Divine order. Because we are part of It, we wish to draw close to It. And because It is really there, when we draw close to It, It responds to us. This is but another way of saying that God gives us as much life as we take.

Perhaps every legitimate desire we have already has an answer in the Spirit, while faith or belief in the Spirit causes It to respond to us. If so, faith not only lays hold of a Power which actually exists, it also causes this Power to respond as though It were a law operating for us. All who have had faith in this Power have received an answer from It. It would be a rash person who denied the reality of this Power or Its response to us.

No doubt most of us have approached this Power through a blind faith, groping out like a blind man, walking in the dark. But the blind seem to have been guided to a light, to an inner assurance which strengthens their unbelief, turning their fear into faith.