And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. (Hebrews 11:6 NLT).Faith is the reason we do what we do. if you don’t really believe in what you are doing, you are wasting your time.
You can go to church, you can give, you can teach and lead, you can sacrifice. But if you really don’t believe what you are doing, it is all worthless.
God wants us to believe in him and trust him. That is all that really matters.
Sometimes we do things by rote, we do them because we have always done them. The element of believing what we are doing is gone from our lives.
When that happens, all we do, no matter how great, becomes meaningless. It is not the stuff that God is pleased with. It is the heart, the mind, the belief.
It is like marriage. You can buy your wife flowers, you can get her jewelry, you can buy her expensive perfume; but unless you love her, they are no good.
A woman would rather have an impromptu bouquet picked from beside the sidewalk from a man who loves her and believes in their marriage than expensive one from a man who doesn’t care and is doing things from habit.
Anyone who wants to come to God has to come in belief, in faith.
There is nothing you can do to earn God’s love and grace. Nothing. And there is nothing you can do to really please God, if it is not done by faith.
Without faith, all actions, all sacrifices, all everything is no good. It has no base. It is just stuff.
And stuff just doesn’t matter, at least not in the long run. It is faith that matters.
God would rather have someone who messes up a lot in life, but who truly believes in him than one who is flawless and eloquent who doesn’t really believe.
That is what Psalm 53:1 means when it says The fool has said in his heart, there is no God. The psalmist was not talking about atheists. He was talking about people who do a lot of stuff, but, when it comes down to it, do not really believe.
Down in their hearts, there is no real faith. What a sad life, to devote yourself to a God, a cause, that you do not really believe in.
Faith is all that matters in the long run.
The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself in love. (James 5:6)
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