2733. But that conclusion is not at all valid. To human beings it is given by the Lord to be as if active, and as if able on their own, so that sometimes they do not know they are not acting from themselves, so they should not fall into that opinion. When they hold that opinion they do nothing, and no accomplishment can be accounted to them, consequently they cannot be reformed. But the power they receive from the Lord, when the Lord so operates in them, they should direct on their own, yet still believe when they think about it that the power is not theirs, but the Lord's. This too is a part of faith. 1748, 4 Aug.