The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"Why Faith?"
Why faith? Why do we begin our relationship with God by faith, and why do we thereafter walk with Him by the same trust and dependence?
The answer primarily lies in Him.
"There is one God… Thou art God alone… There is no God else, beside Me" (I Timothy 2:5; Psalm 86:10; Isaiah 46:21).
God alone exists in and of Himself, the only self-generating and sustaining being in existence. He alone has been "from everlasting" (Psalm 90:2). No one else is like Him, or can be like Him in His divine substance, nature, and way. If He creates other conscious beings such as angelic or human, they cannot independently be as He is in self-existence, character, or ability. He cannot make other Gods. "I am God, and there is none like Me" (Isaiah 46:9).
By definition, this means that all others are dependent on Him for "life, breath, and all things." "In Him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17; 25; 28). To know the Lord as He is and to know ourselves as we are thus involves His promise of provision and our reception by faith. Our relationship with God through the Lord Jesus Christ begins accordingly: "As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name" (John 1:12). Our walk with Him subsequent to the new birth continues by the same response: "The just shall live by faith… as ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him" (Romans 1:17; Colossians 2:6). This constitutes faith as primary in our fellowship with God. To know, love, and honor Him flows with the current of trusting Him in response to His grace and truth in Christ.
From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible shines with the glory of an infinitely faithful and able God. As we walk with our Lord, the pathways of our hearts and lives glimmer with the same trustworthiness and ability of One who "cannot lie" and whose power is "exceeding, abundantly above all we ask or think" (Titus 1:2; Ephesians 3:20). Such a One can - and must - be trusted "with all thy heart" (Proverbs 3:5). Why faith? Only thereby do we live in the truth and reality of who we are, and far more importantly, who God is as the only eternal and infinite "I AM" (Exodus 3:14). In the light of who He is as "God alone," we discover who we are and the necessity of faith, whereby we "live through Him" (I John 4:9).
"He is thy life."
(Deuteronomy 30:20)
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee."
(Isaiah 26:3)
Weekly Memory Verse
Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
(Psalm 36:5)
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