Faith
“Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to
pass. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and
within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a
people. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's
son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.” (Isaiah 7:7-9)
Today’s Morsel: Four times in
scripture we read these words, “The just shall live by faith”
(Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38). What does it
mean to live by faith? "Because without faith it is impossible
to please God, for he that cometh to God must believe Him."
(Hebrews 11:6), then we must take God at His word and live our lives
according to it. If we do not stand firm on our faith in God and His
Word, we will not stand at all. As without Him we can do nothing. Paul
states that the number one reason that the children of Israel, who were brought
out of Egypt, could not enter the Promised Land was because of their
unbelief. And he admonishes us, “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of
unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while
it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of
sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our
confidence stedfast unto the end; While it is said, Today if ye will hear his
voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had
heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with
whom was he grieved forty years? was it
not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to
whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that
believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief” (Hebrews 3:12-19) He continues by admonishing us, “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we
have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word
spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience
received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so
great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was
confirmed unto us by them that heard him.” (Hebrews 2:1-3) If we do not add to our faith, we will forget
that we’ve had our sins purged and we’ll miss heaven every time.
Sing: My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb
of Calvary, Savior divine! Now hear me while I pray; Take all my guilt
away. Oh, let me from this day be wholly Thine!
Thought For Today: If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
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