I have a friend who is in the throes of a faith-led life. I didn’t say “faith-filled” life, because her filling is still coming. She knows (believes/has faith) that God’s promises will come in God’s time. But for now, God has directed her steps, and she is putting one foot in front of the other as the Lord leads her in schooling, in marriage, and in life.
These are biggies…and she is believing God for the promises that He is showing her, and in real prayer/in real response/in real time: she is (boldly) walking forward in faith.
She does not have all the answers, and nor does she know (any) of the eventual outcomes, but she is believing, hoping, and having faith in God for those outcomes.
It’s inspiring to me!
But it’s triggering for some others. Another friend of mine heard the same (bold-faith and believing-before-seeing) story and credited her as crazy. She questioned how long our friend’s faith would hold out, and she insinuated that (with blind-faith like that), the world would be waiting and watching for her to fall.
My heart fell.
Is that what some people think about our faith when we are fully convinced that what God has promised, he is also able to do (Romans 4:21)?
Well–some people might credit faith like that as crazy…
But God will credit it to us for righteousness (Romans 4:22). How can we know? Exhibit A is Abraham. He lived in the throes of a faith-led life. Much (most?) of his life was not lived in the “faith-filled” stage, because his filling was still coming. And for some things, he waited a long time (look up the birth of Isaac).
But Abraham had faith that God’s promises would come in God’s time. Abraham trusted God for the biggies, and in real prayer/in real response/in real time: he boldly walked in faith. Abraham is one of God’s poster-children for having faith.
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith…
(16) This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants…
(17) As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, the one who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.
(18) He believed, hoping against hope, so that he became the father of many nations according to what had been spoken: So will your descendants be. (19) He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about a hundred years old) and also the deadness of Sarah’s womb. (20) He did not waver in unbelief at God’s promise but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, (21) because he was fully convinced that what God had promised, he was also able to do. (22) Therefore, it was credited to him for righteousness. ~Romans 4:13, 16-22
It’s inspiring to me! And, what Abraham experienced in faith and because of his belief in God…we can experience too. The righteousness that God credited to Abraham because of his faith…is ours too.
Now it was credited to him was not written for Abraham alone, (24) but also for us. It will be credited to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. (25) He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification. ~Romans 4:23-25
Regardless of what others might say or doubt about our faith today—believe(!) Brothers and Sisters in Christ.
Even if they are waiting for us to trip-up/sin/fall/perish…hope against hope in our God today!
Exhibit A is Abraham.
Friends: let’s get busy believing in our God. If we are in the throes of a faith-led life…keep believing: hope against hope today.
We may not be “faith-filled” today because our filling is still coming. But believe and have faith that God’s promises will come in God’s time. And for now, let God direct our steps. Put one foot in front of the other as the Lord leads us today, even in the biggies of life.
Believing God for the promises that He is showing us, and in real prayer/in real response/in real time: let’s boldly walk forward in faith today.
We’ll never have all the answers, or know (any) of the eventual outcomes, but we can choose to believe, hope, and have faith in God for those outcomes.
Exhibit A is Abraham.
Blessings,
sarah
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