Wednesday Reading: Romans 3:27-31
Key Verse: Romans 3:31
31 Do we then make the Law void through faith? Let it not be! But we establish the Law.
Devotion:
How many Christians do you know that go around boasting? Bit of a trick question that because I’m sure that we are all guilty of boasting about something in our lives at some stage or another. What this passage allude to though is not the boasting about the physical things we have, but the boasting about the religion! Yes we have an Awesome God. Yes we have a Saviour. Yes we have the Holy Spirit – and we would be totally lost without them. Yes we should be proud that we can stand up and say that we have God on our side and that we believe in Him but we must not do that through boasting about our lives.
I hear churches in various parts of the world talk about the amount of money that they will get because they believe ‘more than others’. I hear talk about churches prospering and the people within them prospering more but am yet to see proof that all that go to those churches all prosper. In reality there are those that prosper and those that do not – life is like that; but the bigger the church congregation, the more people you may hear about that are prosperous... It’s not about living right so that God will give you money or belongings. It’s not about giving enough to the church so that God will give you more. Yes, we should live right and yes we should give to the church but that is because that is what the law says.
God’s law gives us the answers as to why we should do things. God’s law gives us what we should be doing. God’s law is open to the whole world – and indeed it is as it has been translated into so many languages. But no matter how hard we try to live and how hard we try to do it all correctly, we will not get closer to heaven without believing in Jesus Christ! The law is there for a reason, but our faith is what will get us to live with God in heaven, not our works... The law can keep us straight and strengthen our faith but Christ does the saving and our belief gives us faith to continue on and faith to believe that He will give to us what He thinks we deserve.
Points to Ponder:
Do you strive to do things right?
Do you strive to do what God knows is right too?
