Do You Struggle to Believe God? - Love Worth Finding - January 22

January 22, 2024 – Do You Struggle to Believe God?
Romans 4:3-4
Sermon: 2051 It’s Time for Some Good News, Part 1

Pray Over This

“For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.’ Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.”
Romans 4:3-4

Ponder This

Grace is the unmerited favor and kindness of God shown to one who does not deserve it and can never earn it. You will be saved by grace, or you won’t be saved at all.

Sometimes when I speak, people introduce me and say nice things about me. But suppose someone said, “There’s one thing about Adrian—you just can’t believe him.” No matter how many nice things you might say about me, if you say, “You can’t believe him,” you’ve just cut off the root of my character. The greatest thing you can do to glorify God is believe God. Faith pleases God because it glorifies God, and because faith pleases God, God rewards faith.

What is faith? Faith is not saying, “God prove it to me, and then I’ll believe it.” No, faith is a response to the nature and character of God. Faith believes God, not for what God has done, but for who God is. When my eye is right, my eye responds to light. When my ear is right, my ear responds to sound. When my heart is right, my heart responds to God. That response is faith, and that faith glorifies God. If a man could be saved by works, God would not get the glory. But when a man is justified by faith, God gets the glory.