Faith.
From the beginning after sin entered the world and separated us from God FAITH became necessary for ALL mankind. A belief in something HOPED FOR, and that HOPE is the EVIDENCE of THINGS NOT SEEN.
We weren't to be allowed to see God. We gave that up! We abandoned that! We lost that right, that privilege. We separated ourselves from our God, from our Creator, our Maker, our Leader, we turned our back on Him and took matters into our own hands. We told God we know better than He knows what is best for us. WE DID THAT and we continue to do that! We do! You can lie to yourself if you want to, we do it all the time, but it's the truth. We have this idea of things and expect them to go accordingly and when they don't how easy is it for us to just get mad at God, believing that He should have done things differently, He should have allowed things to happen another way- OUR WAY. We turned our back on God in that garden when we believed that He was keeping something from us and we knew better- that things should be the way we thought, not the way He commanded. I say we and I mean we because everyone of us had the same potential to commit the same first sin. Eve wasn't someone unique, she was a human being given a free will just like you and I are. Each time we choose to sin we are making the same choice- we are choosing to disobey God.
We were kept from seeing our CREATOR because we chose and continue to choose that path. Once we were set down that road there was no going back. We could NOT force God to reveal Himself to us. God chose to keep us alive and offer us redemption but FAITH would be required of us.
FAITH is required and faith is believing when we do NOT see, FAITH is having the HOPE that become the EVIDENCE of the thing we CANNOT see. FAITH- we are NOT allow to see GOD. We are NOT allowed to see our SALVATION. We are NOT being given TANGIBLE proof.
Faith has been required of all of God's chosen from the first to the last.
None could please God without FAITH, without BELIEVING in all they could not see, without HOPING for GOD, that HOPE being the EVIDENCE of His existence, EVIDENCE of HIS LOVE!
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Heb 11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Heb 11:3 Through FAITH we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
The worlds were FRAMED by the WORD of GOD.
THINGS which are SEEN were NOT MADE of things which do APPEAR.
The WORD of GOD created the WORLDS.
Does everyone believe this? No.
It takes FAITH to believe this. We are asked to believe without seeing, without touching, without detail explanations that involve all the whys and wherefores. If you've ever been in love, or have loved someone you know that it's not completely explainable down to the last detail, yet you know it's real, it exists. There are a million things we cannot explain and yet we believe them because they are. God IS and many choose not to believe as they try to believe there are other ways of answering things, that scientists will open their eyes to everything just by their supposedly educated hypothesis and so on. Because their words are plentiful and their ideas grandiose they try to explain everything when in the end, the very end of it, ONLY FAITH will give the true answers.
More tomorrow all by the GRACE of God!
IN HIS LOVE!
IN HIS MERCY!
ALL BY HIS GRACE!
From the beginning after sin entered the world and separated us from God FAITH became necessary for ALL mankind. A belief in something HOPED FOR, and that HOPE is the EVIDENCE of THINGS NOT SEEN.
We weren't to be allowed to see God. We gave that up! We abandoned that! We lost that right, that privilege. We separated ourselves from our God, from our Creator, our Maker, our Leader, we turned our back on Him and took matters into our own hands. We told God we know better than He knows what is best for us. WE DID THAT and we continue to do that! We do! You can lie to yourself if you want to, we do it all the time, but it's the truth. We have this idea of things and expect them to go accordingly and when they don't how easy is it for us to just get mad at God, believing that He should have done things differently, He should have allowed things to happen another way- OUR WAY. We turned our back on God in that garden when we believed that He was keeping something from us and we knew better- that things should be the way we thought, not the way He commanded. I say we and I mean we because everyone of us had the same potential to commit the same first sin. Eve wasn't someone unique, she was a human being given a free will just like you and I are. Each time we choose to sin we are making the same choice- we are choosing to disobey God.
We were kept from seeing our CREATOR because we chose and continue to choose that path. Once we were set down that road there was no going back. We could NOT force God to reveal Himself to us. God chose to keep us alive and offer us redemption but FAITH would be required of us.
FAITH is required and faith is believing when we do NOT see, FAITH is having the HOPE that become the EVIDENCE of the thing we CANNOT see. FAITH- we are NOT allow to see GOD. We are NOT allowed to see our SALVATION. We are NOT being given TANGIBLE proof.
Faith has been required of all of God's chosen from the first to the last.
None could please God without FAITH, without BELIEVING in all they could not see, without HOPING for GOD, that HOPE being the EVIDENCE of His existence, EVIDENCE of HIS LOVE!
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Heb 11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Heb 11:3 Through FAITH we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
The worlds were FRAMED by the WORD of GOD.
THINGS which are SEEN were NOT MADE of things which do APPEAR.
The WORD of GOD created the WORLDS.
Does everyone believe this? No.
It takes FAITH to believe this. We are asked to believe without seeing, without touching, without detail explanations that involve all the whys and wherefores. If you've ever been in love, or have loved someone you know that it's not completely explainable down to the last detail, yet you know it's real, it exists. There are a million things we cannot explain and yet we believe them because they are. God IS and many choose not to believe as they try to believe there are other ways of answering things, that scientists will open their eyes to everything just by their supposedly educated hypothesis and so on. Because their words are plentiful and their ideas grandiose they try to explain everything when in the end, the very end of it, ONLY FAITH will give the true answers.
More tomorrow all by the GRACE of God!
IN HIS LOVE!
IN HIS MERCY!
ALL BY HIS GRACE!
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