Re: Think 03-29-09 (part 2)
Written on March 31, 2009 by Matt
Yesterday we began our look at Abraham, his Road to Redemption and Lessons learned along the way. Our focus yesterday was on the first lesson learned, namely that the Road to Redemption is a journey. Today we continue our conversation, considering how this Road to Redemption is the place where we learn obedience and exercise faith.
In much the same way that parts of our physical being cannot grow unless exercised, our faith cannot grow unless it is exercised as well. Unfortunately many people spend their entire lives of faith as spiritual invalids, content with couch potato Christianity awaiting the “some glad morning” when God will take their posterior to glory.
The truth of the matter is, God did not send His Son to be the all sufficient sacrifice for our sins, for us to sit on our couch and eat spiritual bon-bons all day.
Rather, He sent His Son to stand in our place so that we would be reconciled to a Holy God and be involved with Him and His work in bringing a lost and dying world back to Himself. James reminds us that faith without works is a dead and non-existent faith. Our faith has not only to talk, but to walk and have meat and substance to it. It is no wonder people don’t find the message of the cross compelling or life changing, because we aren’t. We don’t paint a very attractive picture of what it means to follow Jesus, because most often we are doing nothing.
Part of the reason why the faith of Abraham has become the ultimate example is because he held firm in this most extreme of tests and counted it as an act of worship while doing so. I wonder if we would do the same.
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