Accepted by Faith

[Daily Devotional]

Accepted by Faith 

For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Gal. 3: 26. 

To talk of religion in a casual way, to pray without soul hunger and living
faith, avails nothing. A nominal faith in Christ, which accepts Him merely
as the Saviour of the world, can never bring healing to the soul. The faith
that is unto salvation is not a mere intellectual assent to the truth. He
who waits for entire knowledge before he will exercise faith cannot receive
blessing from God. It is not enough to believe about Christ; we must believe
in Him. The only faith that will benefit us is that which embraces Him as a
personal Saviour; which appropriates His merits to ourselves. Many hold
faith as an opinion. Saving faith is a transaction by which those who
receive Christ join themselves in covenant relation with God. Genuine faith
is life. A living faith means an increase of vigor, a confiding trust, by
which the soul becomes a conquering power. 

True faith is that which receives Christ as a personal Saviour. God gave His
only- begotten Son, that I, by believing in Him, "should not perish, but
have everlasting life" (John 3: 16). When I come to Christ, according to His
word, I am to believe that I receive His saving grace. The life that I now
live, I am to "live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
himself for me" (Gal. 2: 20). 

The apostle Paul clearly presents the relation between faith and the law
under the new covenant. He says: "Being justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." "Do we then make void the law
through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law." "For what the law
could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh"-- it could not justify
man, because in his sinful nature he could not keep the law --" God sending
his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in
the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who
walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" (Rom. 5: 1; 3: 31; 8: 3, 4).


>From God's Amazing Grace - Page 139