When God made His promises to us, do we take Him at His Word? It is natural for us, in our stage of growing in the Lord, to be like Abraham, always asking, “Lord God, how shall I know that I will inherit Your promises?”
God is a good God. He is so gracious that He will never reproof us for failing to take His Word. He will always come down to our level of faith and encourage us with His Word, to assure us that He will always keep His promises. Though a lot of time we are of our little faith, He will still show us His gracious Word to “grow” our faith!
John 8:32 ~ You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Romans 8:32 ~ He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
In response to Abraham’s little faith, God cut a covenant with Abraham. But in response to us, the seeds of Abraham, He had already made a new covenant with us, which is established by the blood of His begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
Through the encouragement from His gracious Word is how our Lord strengthens our faith day by day. That was how Abraham grew in his faith day by day; and after years of affirmation, he had come to a stage that, even on giving up his begotten son, Isaac, he believed that God Himself would provide the lamb for the burnt offering. This is grace and Abraham saw His grace and the Lord sees him with faith!
Galatians 3:18 ~ For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.
Take a look at today’s Christianity, how many legalistic preachers or religious teachers still fight to urge believers to obey rules and regulations so that they can come up to “their level” of faith (the level of the preacher’s faith) to receive from God? Not knowing that even the preachers’ faith is the kind of faith that is called, little faith.
Proverbs 8:32 ~ Now then, my sons, listen to me; blessed are those who keep My ways.
What is His way, my friend…? When we see His grace, He sees us with faith!
Nice one Al...all we need is a little faith, to act on it (not because if we dont we are disobeying God- i mean gee, we disobey God continually, but because we want to we say: OK Lord i'm stepping out and your Word says your with me, so lets GO!)) and BAM! God does the rest...
ReplyDeleteYou are right Craig. Faith is never of the natural but supernatural and can only be access through grace...
ReplyDeleteOur faith is at His assessment; not our claim on how much faith we have! When we see His grace, He sees us with faith and BAM! Here we are...!
Thank you. You know just Who to point to and encourage us with.
ReplyDeleteI'm stepping out... :)