Rom_1:17 For
therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is
written, The just shall live by faith.
Gal_3:11 But
that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for,
The just shall live by faith.
Heb_10:38 Now
the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no
pleasure in him.
Gal 2:20 I am
crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:
and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of
God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
2Co 5:7 (For
we walk by faith, not by sight:)
(Excerpt)
'The Life of Faith
The Bible Discloses
for us the normal path of a Christian’s walk in such passages as “the righteous
shall live by faith”; “the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the
Son of God”; and “we walk by faith, not by sight” (Rom. 1.17 ASV; Gal. 2.20; 2
Cor. 5.7).
By faith are we to
live.
But while this
principle may be quickly grasped in the mind it is not so readily experienced
in life. The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also
diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
He who lives by
sensation can follow God’s will or seek the things above purely at the time of
excitement; should his blissful feeling cease, every activity terminates. Not
so with one who walks by faith.
Faith is anchored in
the One Whom he believes rather than in the one who exercises the believing,
that is, himself.
Faith looks not at
what happens to him but at Him Whom he believes.
Though he may
completely change, yet the One in Whom he trusts never does—and so he can
proceed without letting up.
Faith establishes
its relationship with God. It regards not its feeling because it is concerned
with God.
Faith follows the
One believed while feeling turns on how one feels.
What faith thus
beholds is God whereas what feeling beholds is one’s self.
God does not change:
He is the same God in either the cloudy day or the sunny day. Hence he who
lives by faith is as unchanging as is God; he expresses the same kind of life
through darkness or through light. But one who dwells by feeling must pursue an
up-and-down existence because his feeling is ever changing.
What God expects of
His children is that they will not make enjoyment the purpose of their lives.
God wants them to
walk by believing Him. As they run the spiritual race they are to carry on
whether they feel comfortable or whether they feel painful. They never alter
their attitude towards God according to their sensations. However dry,
tasteless or dark it may be, they continue to advance— trusting God and
advancing as long as they know this is God’s will.
Frequently their
feeling appears to rebel against this continuation: they grow exceedingly
sorrowful, melancholic, despondent, as though their emotions were pleading with
them to halt every spiritual activity. They nonetheless go on as usual,
entirely ignoring their adverse feeling; for they realize work must be done.
This is the pathway of faith, one which pays
no heed to one’s emotion but exclusively to the purpose of God.' Excerpt - The Spiritual Man by Watchman Nee
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