Obedience And Faith

True Faith doesn’t just move mountains… it finds the Grace to Trust God to help climb them. True Faith doesn’t say “God will not put me in the fire…” but true faith says, “I will go through anything and everything He wills, and in the end, by His Grace, I will be more like Him.”

Beloved, true faith is not just knowing that God can, for James tells us that even the devils know that God can and they tremble, but that doesn’t give them faith. If a devil could have the true faith that Christ requires, and that we have mostly let slip through our understanding, then that devil would be as saved as you and I. So we must understand then that just knowing that God can is not enough. Seeing this, we then must look to what true faith is.

James 2:20-24, “But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.”

Hebrews 11:8-10, “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”

We see in both of these passages that faith is only faith when we obey and work His will. We must simply will to do His will, and faith will always be there. Faith isn’t just some blab it grab it thing. We don’t work faith by our emotions… we work faith by trusting God enough to do what He asks. If He said to climb that mountain... then climb it, for that is true faith.