Search the devotional

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

HEBREWS 11:6


Faith is often preached from the human perspective: believe God and get your needs met. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's a one-sided perspective. So let's also try to look at faith from God's perspective.
Would you get any pleasure out of people who doubted you? Surely God gets no pleasure out of people doubting His Word, either. Does God deserve respect?  YES!!! To doubt what someone says shows disrespect. While humans can be wrong, God only speaks absolute truth. Many people only think of acting on God's Word from their perspective, without considering God's feelings. Their motivation is completely self-centered, thinking only of what it will profit them. Let's decide not to act this way! Do you desire to please God? If you don't desire to please God, you don't know Him. God is so wonderful, so great, and so good, that if you really know Him you cannot help but desire to please Him. But how can a human please God? How can we, in any way, operate on God's level and impress Him? The Bible reveals that God is
pleased with our faith.  Of course you cannot separate what you believe from your actions, because you always act on what you really believe. To illustrate, if someone told you the building you were in was on
fire, if you believe them you will act by leaving. If you do not try to leave the building, then you do not really believe what they said.Even if our walking by faith in God has not yet seemingly produced many results -- is it not worthwhile to continue simply in order to bring pleasure to God? What higher accomplishment could a human have than to please God?



But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6)


No comments:

Readers of the devotionals

Devotional Archives