Koan #29: Desiring is the Key

The question of what is the most important ingredient in one’s faith is too often misunderstood by the unfaithful. For what the key to faith is, is hope (Hebrews 11:1). And what is hope but a desire for a thing? And this is indeed the key to faith, for it is the desiring aspect of one’s faith which is what God’s deeply wishes to receive from his creatures, not mere belief in Him nor simple knowledge of Him--for even the demons know and believe in the Lord (James 2:19). For it is only with a desire for God that one can wish to reach out in obedience to Him, for obedience is both the path to Him (John 15:10) and the requirement for God to make Himself known to the one desiring Him (John 14:21-23). Thus let any Unbeliever, or any wavering Believer who desires God but fears the loss of his psychological grasp of the faith, obey that which God desires and the truth shall remain with him.