Thursday, February 1, 2018

Thursday Devotional - Faith and Boasting

Did James and Sarah do anything to become part of our family? Do they have any room for boasting about earning their new status as a Rea? Can anything they do make them more of a Rea or more a part of our family? No, no and no!

The same is true in the family of God. We don’t do anything to become a part of His family and have no room to boast about our status as a believer.
Romans 3:27-28           Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

True saving faith isn’t wishful thinking but trusting on God’s plans and promises and acting on that trust with courage. When I have true saving faith, I’m not boastful. I remember all I am, all I have, and all I’m capable of comes from God. I don’t earn faith or justification.
  
What do you and I cling to, to deserve a right standing before God?
Are you and I boasting in our confessions/prayers/works/faith or in God’s justification?

True saving faith results in gratitude, and not pride or boasting.


Alice

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