At the Feet of the King

March 18

“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God,” Romans 10:17.

The Word of God, the Living Word, Jesus Christ is the One by Whom and through Whom faith comes. If we deny Him, we have no faith at all. Oh, we may think we have faith. We may attend church every time the doors are open, we may spend ourselves tirelessly to further the cause of the Kingdom, we may give of our resources until our coffers are empty, but we will not have done it for faith.

The world is full of people who think they are serving God. From the most radical terrorist who kills in the name of the Holy One who has said, “thou shalt not kill,” Exodus 20:13, to the TV evangelist who goads the gullible into donating their meager resources in order to reap a reward from the Lord, the misguided are everywhere misrepresenting the Word.

And by our self-identified measure of God’s favor, we try to convince ourselves that they’re actually winning. We neglect to remember that, “Without faith it is impossible to please God,” Hebrews 11:6. We fail to grasp the reality that “…he who comes to the Father must believe that HE IS…”

His infallible Word states clearly that the one who comes to him cannot be “driven like the winds of the sea and tossed about,” James 1:6. If anything propels our faith but the Word of God, if anything but the Living Christ is our motivation, then nothing we do, nothing that we believe ourselves to be is of any consequence in the Kingdom’s value system.

We must not allow ourselves to be compelled to act in the way the world expects us to comport ourselves or in compliance with the things the belief systems in which we were nurtured anticipate that we will conduct ourselves.

No, we must hear the Word of God, the true. Infallible, eternal, living Word of God; we must have faith in it and in the One who gave it to us; and we must act upon it in the power of His name. As we do, that faith will become alive in us, and we will do exploits in the behalf of the Kingdom that we serve; we will, because we have placed our lives at the feet of the King.