What will make meaningful to me these tremendous truths of Christ living His life in me, and I united to Him in place of the old union? The answer, of course, is faith. But that doesn’t seem to act. I do believe, and yet it seems to make little difference. Well, there is still no other answer. But it is possible that you are not really believing in God’s impossible word. You think you are, but you are really believing in what you think about that word. I told you that it costs everything to believe. "Let us labour therefore…lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." Faith crosses an unbridgeable gulf into the invisible, unknowable, impossible. It crosses just by believing it has crossed, because He says so, and He is the bridge. To everything on the human side of the gulf it looks as unbridgeable as ever, and that there is no other side! If therefore, without realizing it, you are basing your faith on a single personal reaction to your faith, then you are still on the human side of the gulf. You are really believing in yourself, not in Him who takes you to the Other Side. A man said to me, "Please help me, I feel a barrier between myself and Christ." I investigated and found that he had faith in an indwelling Christ, and had no barrier of immediate uncleansed sin; so I said, "You are wasting your time asking for help from an illusion. There is no barrier except that you have transferred your faith back from Him to yourself–what you feel about your relationship to Him. Get back where you were–to faith without a shred of human assistance." Another said the same to me about power. How could he know the power of God? "Does Jesus Christ dwell in you?" I asked. "Yes," he said–"by faith." "Then run away," I said (he was a young man). "What more power can you want or have than He in you? You are wanting to exchange faith for sight. Faith has no other evidence than itself (he that believeth hath the witness in himself). You have turned back to find some missing evidence by believing what you feel in place of what He is." Yet a third asked, "How can I know He abides in me?" Rather brutally I answered, "I am not the least interested in whether you know or do not know. I am only interested in whether He is in you or not. What you know directs your faith on to what you know, not what He is."

On the human side of the gulf we humans want all our human proofs of feelings, evidences, results and so forth. On the other side of the gulf, and the bridge over the gulf, is the One who is forever unknowable and invisible to the human; and faith has staked all on Him, indeed the faith itself is really only He in us believing in Himself–there’s nothing human left to it. If I hold a book in my hand and say, "This is a book," I am only directing your and my own attention to the fact of the book. That is faith in the fact that the book is a book. If I say to you, "I believe this is a book," I am diverting your and my attention from the fact of the book being a book to my views and beliefs about the book. I have transferred your potential faith from the book to myself and my opinions. That is what we are continually doing, and is the cause of much weakness and wavering in faith. 

—God Unlimited