Thursday Reading: Romans 1:16-17
Key Verse: Romans 1:17
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
Devotion:
God’s Word, our bibles, contains as much information as God would have us to have in order to know Him, His Law, His Love, His righteousness but also His wrath. We often focus on one things at a time because it is easier to think things through in that way, but God’s Word continues to give us the truth no matter how much we are able to find out. That truth should spurn us on to find out more and to discover what God would have us to know further than just the space around us.
But possibly the most important aspect of God’s Word is that it will show us God’s ways no matter how we look at it. We can look at it as a record of His love and find out how He loves us. We can look at it from the point of view of His wrath and find out how He corrects man time and time again. It is a complete record of God’s knowledge that we need in order to know Him and to love Him. It may have everything written down but what it does not do is place everything into a test-tube so that we can empirically prove what God wants us to know or even prove that He exists. Instead it gives us knowledge that we must believe in order to know Him.
It is all about faith – believing in the unseen – and not about scientific proof. If we look at our so called scientific theories about the beginning of the world, they all have a large element of faith in them, believing that a set of events that cannot be proven is set in place in order for the current world to come into existence. No matter which way we look at the beginning of the world, it is by faith we must accept what we believe to be the truth. I would rather believe God’s Word which is written down with a complete explanation than man’s suppositions about what may have happened based on a random initial event which in itself must still depend on an intelligent start!
Points to Ponder:
How do you see faith?
Do you have faith in God’s truth?