Romans 4:4-8

Verse 5 “but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness”. It has always amazed me how it was the Abraham was righteous in God’s sight just because he believed what God said. In the old religious format in our minds we believe that we are righteous when we are sinless or abstain from things. That God almost applauds us or works us towards that end. However, it seems that God is more thrilled by our faith in Him. Trusting Him without knowing or seeing or having any kind of natural reassurance or visible things that we can see. Here it says in Romans 4 that there is no work to being justified or credited but really the faith is counted to us as righteousness. He even refers to David as a man that is blessed because his sins are covered, who trusts in the Lord.

I encourage you today to put your faith in the living God whom you don’t see naturally and trust in Him that you may be righteous and know that you are righteous because of the completed work of Christ. I will always be thankful. Every day of my life I wake up with a deep gratitude for this completed work of Calvary. For those who ever watched the movie “The Passion” and saw the bloody, consistent, horrific violence with which Jesus was inflicted. It is such a grievous thing for me that I can’t even stand to watch it but at the same time, I would hate to waste one single ounce of His suffering or blood so I take every bit of it and apply it to my life and receive it. Rather than waste it. It was a tragic thing that He had to die for our sins but let’s enjoy and have confidence in Him. That not only has He forgiven us, He has also delivered us and blessed us with good things in heavenly places.