Righteous Through Faith

God doesn’t want your home, savings, or your possessions; all he wants is your faith and belief in his Word. This may be the one thing that people who appear spiritual lack. You may look at another person as more spiritual than you, but that person may actually be struggling to maintain an appearance of righteousness. Yet, as God looks at you, he declares, “There is a righteous man or woman.” Why? Because you acknowledged your inability to become righteous on your own and trusted the Lord to grant you his righteousness.

Paul tells us we are counted as righteous in God’s eyes for the same reason Abraham was.

“Therefore, it was accounted to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead” (Romans 4:22-24, NKJV).

You may claim, “I believe this! I have faith in the God who resurrected Jesus.” Yet, here are some questions for you: Do you believe the Lord can resurrect your troubled marriage? Do you believe he can bring to life a spiritually dead relative? Do you believe he can raise you up out of the pit of a debilitating habit? Do you believe he can erase your cursed past and restore to you all the years that have been wasted?

When everything seems hopeless and when you are in an impossible situation with no resources and no hope before you, do you believe God will be your Jehovah Jireh, seeing to your need? Do you believe he is committed to keeping his promises to you and that if even one of his words should fail, the heavens would melt and the universe collapse?

“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it” (Isaiah 55:10-11).

Beloved, trust fully in his Word and his promises, for he will prove himself faithful in all things.