To Encourage You

Romans 10:17 “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”

Whom do you trust?  And why do you trust them?  It’s likely because of their track record. You’ve watched them, and in their interactions with you, they’ve demonstrated their integrity. Their word was their bond, for they’ve shown this to you time after time.  I trust my wife.  She is a faithful, loving person whom I can trust with anything.  What she says she will do, she will do.  She doesn’t lie to me – ever! 

But trusting a person, whom we can see, is one thing. How do we learn to trust the God that we can’t see?  The verse above tells us.  Faith, i.e., faith in our God, comes to us by hearing and hearing through the Word of Christ.  It is this Word of Christ, which is just a synonym for the Bible, that gives us the track record of the God of the universe. As we read His Word, we find that He doesn’t lie. We find pictures of His integrity time after time. We see words such as these from Joshua: “Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass” (Joshua 21:45) and in these from Solomon recorded in 1 Kings 8:56: “Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.” 

The Bible: it’s God’s track record given to us so that we might learn to trust Him.  So, are you faltering in your faith in God?  Can you trust Him even now, when everything seems to be screaming the opposite to you? Are you struggling to believe in the midst of some storm?  Then read the track record of this One Who cannot lie.  He has proven Himself over and over to those who believed, and He will do the same for you – each and every time.