Saturday Reading: Hebrews 10:38
Key Verse: Hebrews 10:38
38 Now, "the Just shall live by faith. But if he draws back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him."
Devotion:
One thing that we often do forget is that faith is not a one-time event but a continual development of our belief. Faith is something that must start with belief and continue with continued belief. If we draw back from that belief then our faith will dwindle. This does not mean that God will forsake us, nor that He will withdraw from us; just that we will withdraw from Him because our hearts will change over time. Once again it comes back to the fact that we must believe these facts in our hearts.
For as long as we continue in our belief in Christ and to follow God’s Word and His ways we can continue to grow in our faith; or to put it another way the more that we find out about God the more we are able to accept the truth for what it is. But just as we can grow in that faith, we can also destroy that faith through things that we do in our own lives. It is little wonder that we fall out with people because of the things that we do to them so should we be surprised that when we do things against God that we find that we fall out with Him.
This does not mean that God rejects us. Yes He does not like what we do and He will allow us to know that but He does not reject us. When we find that what we are doing is working against God, we often draw away from God because we do not want Him to reject us or to punish us in any way; in doing that we open up ourselves to almost anything because we are excluding Him from our lives. It is our faith that should hold us close to God because it is that strength through faith that will carry us through the trials that we will face.
Points to Ponder:
Do you pull back when you do something wrong?
How often do you reject God in some way?