Increasing in Faith

The discovery of God is a never-ending event. Just as a scientist discovers something new in the world of creation every day, a believer should always make discoveries about his Creator—discoveries that increase his faith every day.

“Observing nature is my religion,” a scientist once reflected. “If I do not discover something new in nature any day, I feel the day has been wasted.” If this is the state of one who is absorbed in God’s creation, how can the state of one who is absorbed in the Creator Himself be any different? Just as the scientist discovers something new in the world of creation every day, a believer should always make discoveries about his Creator—discoveries that increase his faith. Any day that he does not find something new is like a day that has been wasted; it is as if he has not established contact with God on that day.

Faith is another word for the discovery of God. God is a never-ending reality; He has no limit. So, the discovery of God is also a never-ending event. Faith that does not grow is not faith at all; it is just a manner of neglecting God.

If an individual’s mind is constantly directed towards God, he will repeatedly experience new manifestations of His glory; time and time again, a new divine light will shine on him. Just as God’s virtues are interminable, similarly, a believer’s search for knowledge of God is a journey that never comes to an end.

This new knowledge is sometimes expressed in the form of divine states with which a man was hitherto unacquainted. Sometimes, it surges to his lips in the form of words of supplication that he had never conceived before. Sometimes, a previously concealed secret of God’s wisdom becomes apparent to him. Sometimes, he attains unknown degrees of proximity to God. Sometimes, a profound new understanding of truth is inspired within him, which all the words he knows are inadequate to express.