November 3
Your righteous works can’t please God. Your generous giving can’t please God. Your preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ can’t please God. Your humility can’t please God. Your exemplary life can’t please God. What can? What can any mortal lay at the feet of the perfect, holy God of Creation that will favorably impress Him?
Faith. For example, Galatians 3:6, 7 says, “Abraham believed God and it was accounted to Him for righteousness. So you should know that the true children of Abraham are those who have faith.” Abraham was a man whose integrity was renown throughout the world in which he lived, but none of that impressed God. His faith did.
God’s regard for faith is stated quite clearly in Hebrews 11:6 where Paul says, “Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for anyone who comes to God must believe that He is God and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him. No half-hearted inquiries will suffice. God will not allow His integrity to rise or fall on a man’s opinion of Him.
God is so far above and beyond our frail ponderings regarding Him that, just as there is nothing we can do to impress Him, neither is there anything we can think regarding Him that can impress Him. Because “…things which are impossible with man are possible with God,” Luke 18:27, all we have of value to lay before Him is our faith.
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