MI DAILY DEVOTION
FAITH MEANS FOCUS IN GOD
FAITH MEANS FOCUS IN GOD
TUESDAY
(Romans 10:17) So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Our faith in God comes along with obedience to God and His Word. There’s no other object of faith but in God. Faith in faith or faith in something is not the object of our genuine faith in God. When Apostle Paul met the Lord while on his way to Damascus in (Acts 9:1- 20); he was converted to Christianity when he put his trust in God. Paul did not have faith in faith; but faith in God who promised him of eternal life in heaven. You cannot separate God, faith and the Bible. We already have an idea of God and about God, but when we heard His Word, we took the genuine step of faith in a true and living God. Faith in God does not work like a vending machine where you drop some coins, you make a selection, push the buttons and what you choose will just drop down for you to pick up. Genuine faith in God is God working in you through His Spirit, by His Word and you obey.
It’s so easy for us Christians to be driven away by our emotion, intellectual ideas and selfish motives. You can lay everything down in the feet of Jesus at the throne of grace. You can trust God to help you with your sin, hopelessness, burdens and financial problem. You have to believe that God knows what He is doing. He knows what lies ahead and God knows our future. Faith is dropping everything from off your hands and your life and entrusting them to God, knowing that He is in control. It’s so easy to get disconnected with God and be out of focus when we lost faith in Him due to the cares of this world. Intensely, carefully and diligently listen to His small voice so you can stay focus to Him by faith. Notice what the writer of the Book of Hebrews said; But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
