Comment:
Faith has an object, this is the initial response to believe. Trust in that object
is the action to abide or walk confidently in what that initial faith is
resting on. The writer in Hebrews explains the object of faith as a substance
of things hoped for and that this trust is the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1-3 continues with this reality of faith by revealing that the
people of God who are of the past; that is, those elders of initial faith in
God have and retain a trustworthy testimony. Men like Abraham, David, and Daniel,
priests, kings and prophets of the Old Testament. John, Peter and Paul
disciples, preachers and apostles of the New Testament. These are the elders
along with many others who led thousands. The number exceeds the number of
stars in the heaven or the number of sands on the seashore, if one could count.
These elders were not seeking to reveal the glory of their personal goodness,
but they were seeking to reveal to you and me the (only) Holy and glorious ONE,
See 2 Peter 1:17.
Devotional: King David continues in Psalm 61 with this
thought of trusting God alone. He is resting in confidence, God has heard David’s
prayer and David who has experienced an overwhelming moment in the circumstance
of daily living, explains; God is his shelter! David says, “I will abide in His
shelter, a strong tower, overlooking the enemy.
This is an important
point for all the children of God so perk up your spiritual eyes and ears. We
are to abide in the tabernacle of God. He is a tent; a protective covering,
that shields you and me from “self-righteous sins” actions of the flesh when we
react to the devil’s contaminated world around us. Trusting is an action word that
places you and me under the authority and shelter of God.
Is this same trust
called for in the New Testament? Read and meditate on John 15:1-8. Jesus is the
Vine of protection, we are called to abide in Him If we fail to live in
trusting faith, we will not produce the fruit of trusting faith, but we will
produce a self-righteous action that is not pleasing to God and His pruning shears
will readily prune the withering branches, not to destroy the branch, but to prune it until it can trust in God alone. See Psalm 62:5-8.
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