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Scripture teaches us to know our Creator. Our God who
created the heavens and the earth and all that the earth contains loves His
Creation. You and I who; being a vital part of this creation are equally loved
by Him as well. The created world around us proves that God is love, the fallen
world around us seeks to discredit the words “For God so loved the world” by
hating and rejecting this truth. So how do we come to grips with these two
opposing views? The answer right up front is FAITH. Of course one or more might
say, faith? Isn’t that something we sit on? While it is true that many of us
sit on our faith and are comfortable doing so humanly speaking; this is not the
faith that God desires of us, this faith is temporal and fails. It fails God
and if you think about it, this faith fails us too. Faith in God will never failure
like some frail chairs (circumstances) of where we plant our faith these days.
Devotional:
Faith, you may think odd, but faith is mentioned only twice
in the Old Testament, once in Deuteronomy 32:20 and once in Habakkuk 2:4. In
Deuteronomy the passage is found roughly in the middle of the song that Moses
sang just before he was taken by the LORD and just before the children of
Israel entered the Promised Land. The song is Moses’s fair well to the nation
whom He led by the power of God out of Egypt to this point of entering the land
of Canaan. A land promised to the Jewish nation by God, a land flowing with
milk and honey.
In verse 15 Moses speaks of Israel’s failure in that like
Jeshurun who grew fat and obese forsook God and scornfully esteemed the Rock of
his salvation. Many churches in the westerner world today are fat and obese. They
provoke God to jealousy by the worship of foreign gods and by their detestable
actions they became an abomination to their Creator. Then in verse 20, God
speaking through Moses says: “I will see what their end will be, even though I
hide my face from their detestable ways as a generation of children whom have
no FAITH.
The Prophet Habakkuk is directed by the LORD to write what
he sees in a vision. God says use plain words when he writes on the tablets in
order that those who read may RUN with it, meaning to go forward or move
quickly away from an obstruction. The idea is to turn away (repent). The
obstruction is the remainder of chapter 2 of Habakkuk “lust of the eyes, the
lust of the flesh and the pride of life” (1 John 2:15-17). Our lives today are
surrounded by obstacles of human faith that blind us to the FAITH that God
searches for in us.
Numerous times in the New Testament you will find the word
FAITH, also you will find BELIEVE and TRUST. Faith in God, Believe in God and
Trust in God are common words requiring actions of faith by those who trust in
Jesus Christ. He is in all books of the Bible including the Old Testament.
One faith is a positional turn to God and Creation through
Jesus Christ, while the other is to do nothing at all and remain under the
curse of God because of the worlds disregard for repenting faith. Faith in the
world’s system which is temporal and it is not accepted by God, this faith is
not eternal and it will fail. Habakkuk relates this truth from God with these
words. “Look at the proud, his soul is not UPRIGHT in him; but the justified
soul, that is the UPRIGHT soul shall live by FAITH. That is a faith directed at
God, God is the Christ/Messiah, Jesus the Son of God and the OBJECT.
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