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Monday, January 10, 2022

Finished by Faith


 

This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”

—Romans 1:17 (NLT)

 

The Good News of the Gospel tells us that we are made right with God through faith in Christ. Faith in Jesus is the only way to have a righteous life. We can’t earn it. It has already been earned. Without faith in the finished work of Christ, we have no hope. 

 

“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God,” Paul wrote (Romans 10:17, NKJ). 

 

Faith comes from hearing the Word. You were made right with God when you believed the Gospel in your heart, and you were saved when you declared it (Romans 10:10). You accepted its truth by faith and knew you were loved. Do you still know you are loved or have problems in life shaken your assurance? Having heard the Word in the past doesn’t build your faith now. You have to hear the Word (present tense) again and again to renew your mind (Romans 12:2).

 

When your problems and the enemy’s attacks and lies convince you that God doesn’t love you, you will strive to win God’s love back. But He has never left you or stopped loving you. There is nothing you have to do to earn God’s love. He has loved you from the beginning. He accepted you as His own when you believed in Jesus. You became His righteousness and belong completely to Him. 


Believing who you are in Christ is the only way to be fully convinced of His love for you.

 

Paul knew how to rejoice when he ran into problems because He knew who He was in Christ. 

 

“We can rejoice, too,” Paul wrote, “when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love” (Romans 5:3-5, NLT).

 

When we believe that God already has the answer for our problems, we praise Him. Those problems develop strength of character instead of defeating us. We have hope and great confidence in God. We know that He first loved us (I John 4:19). And that His work of salvation in us doesn’t lack a thing. It is complete. Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see (Hebrews 11:1). The hope God has given us never leads to disappointment! When we know and believe that what we need is already ours, we live by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthian 5:7)! And when we believe, no enemy—no lie—nothing has any power to come against us.

 

Do you want to live life to the fullest? His life in you is lived by faith. When you believe that you are completely new and lack nothing in Christ, what you see and feel doesn’t determine your peace and joy. Christ determines who you are.

 

The Holy Spirit reveals who you are in the Word. Renew your mind with God’s truth (Romans 12:2). Believe, my friend, in the finished work of Jesus! Know who you are in Christ. Faith fuels you. Your mind will be flooded with the love of the Holy Spirit, and you will know that the love of God fully dwells in you. 

 

“I have glorified You on the earth,” Jesus said to His Father. “I have finished the work which You have given Me to do (John 17:4, NKJV).

 

When you believe you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21)—when you believe that the work is already done (John 17:4), you stand strong through each problem in life knowing God has already taken care of whatever you face You see God’s finished outcome. And you choose to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). 

 

© 2022 Lynn Lacher

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