Faith and divine pleasure!
Verse for Today: Thursday, February 07, 2013
Hebrews 10:38 – But My
righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased
with him.
A person who lives by faith in
God and His promises is fully dependent on God’s resources. His faith and walk
are not motivated by own instinct, positive circumstances and benevolent people.
He only wants to be led by God and so he refuses to see anything other than God’s
resources. Such faith is honored by God and so He comes to help and lead him in
the right direction. He moves only when he is commanded to move by God who
totally controls his actions, emotions and motives. His focus is fully based on
what God leads him into without complaint or dissatisfaction. He doesn’t need
to ask God where He was leading him to and the time for the next move. His human
expectations are sacrificed at the altar on the mount called Golgotha. He might
be looked down upon by the world because his attitude to life seem strangely
unintelligent and thoughtless. When the world around him is madly chasing the
wind of prosperity, prestige, popularity, possessions and positions, he seemed
to be resigned from it all. When the world is competing among so many smart
options, the child of God takes what is given to him by his Master. It looks
like he is picking up the leftovers that are around, but actually he has tamed
his mind to be satisfied with the daily bread as a great gift from his Master
for survival till he reaches his eternal inheritance. This is the kind of life
of faith that the Master has called us into. The Master uses such lives as
practical demonstration of the ardent faith with which He is pleased. Today God
wants to remind us that He is not pleased with our rat race to amass the
perishable possessions this world offers when He has prepared immeasurable treasures
for us in our eternal home.
Dear friend, do you sometimes
pause and wonder about the practical wisdom about following the pathway of
faith to which you are called by the Master? Are you sometimes confused at the
way others amass and enjoy wealth when you seem to have only hand-to-mouth
existence? But your Master has called you to a life of faith which expects you
to depend totally on Him. He wants you to prove your loyalty to Him by
believing on His promise that He will lead you day by day. He has set you up
here on earth not because of the world’s resources, but because He has enough
in His heavenly warehouse to meet your needs. Your faith is strange to the
world that is around you. But at each step, God will show you how to take the
next step which is to be endeavored by faith in the One who has called you to
walk the pathway of faith. It was such faith which made a childless Abraham to
become the father of the multitude. This kind of faith that the Master has
called us unto is against the intelligence and smartness exhibited by the world.
Just like Prophet Elijah, we would not know which raven might bring us the
dinner. We would not understand how the dough in our pot and the oil in our jar
would not dry down. A faith of such magnitude finds the brooks of Cherith dry
down, but will take us to a poor and destitute widow to prove to us that means
need not be a concern for us. Our Provider is greater than what He provides. He
will not let us be destitute, but will take good care of us if we depend solely
on Him. Then He will be pleased with us and our faith and will strengthen our
hearts to keep going.
Hebrews 11:6 – And without
faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must
believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
Thought for Today
Faith opens the door to the heavenly resource center which is available
to God’s children here and now.
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