He Looks at Your Faith

"And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness." (Genesis 15:6)

In the day-to-day of living life, how often do we find ourselves struggling with the fact of what we have done and have not done? Does it ever get us to the point where we feel as if we know not what else to do? Do we ever find ourselves throwing up our hands to God in the sense to give up when we feel as if we've failed? We struggle with doing this and that because we think within our own minds that God requires all of these things from us. Well today I have good news for you........Your struggle is OVER!

 

During my studies this morning, God showed me something very profound about the life of Abraham. At this particular time in Abraham's life God instructed him to go forth to a land that he would give him to possess. He had promised him to give him descendant's as numerous as the stars. God promised him an heir. But Abraham didn't see how this would happen because he had no children. Abraham stated to God that God hadn't given him any offspring. He was childless. Let's pause right there and look at what Abraham said............"You have given me no offspring." From this verse, the first thing I learned is that Abraham knew where his blessings came from. He knew that whatever he received came from God. Even though he was a childless man at the moment, He knew that God was the one who could give him children.

 

Although this is not the major point of my post today. It was one that I felt needed to be stated to bring me into the point of this post. God promised Abraham that his heir would come from his own body. And when we read Genesis 15:6, we see that Abraham believed God and that his belief was accounted to him for righteousness. Abraham's belief in God was based on his faith in God. In other words, Abraham's faith made God count him as pure, sinless, and holy before Himself. God did not evaluate Abraham as righteous because everything he did was right, but because he had faith in God's ability to make him righteous. (Spirit-filled Student Life Bible, Word Wealth, pg.24)

 

I recall a time in my life where I used to be really hard on myself for not doing things right before God. I allowed the enemy to bring me into condemnation. It made me feel worthless and powerless. Then one day as I was spending time with the Holy Spirit, He showed me that it was not about the things that I did, but about my faith in the "One" who died to make me righteous. It was not about the fact that I had to keep the law, but about the "One" who came, fulfilled the law, died and rose again. It was about my faith in Jesus Christ. That revelation came to me in the year 2010.

 

I love the fact that God loves us so much that He reminds us of things that He has already spoken to us. Apparently, I must have forgotten and lost sight of this simple truth. God had to give me a gentle reminder through the life of Abraham. As He has spoken this to me, friend, He is also speaking to you. What is God saying? "My son, my daughter, I do not look at your works. I look at your faith."

 

Here, fellow reader, is the greatest example of this revelation that I can give you as God gave it to me. I will bet that you never thought about the reason why God says that He will remember your sin no more. In our day we refer to that as Him throwing our sin in the "Sea of Forgetfulness". I'm not sure we have even grasped the power that is within this fact. It's simple, yet profound. When we come to God in wholehearted repentance, He forgives our sin and forgets that we ever committed it. Why? You ask. Why would he? He does this because He is not looking at our works. He's looking at the fact that we believed in Him enough to realize that the act we committed was against Him. We believed in Him enough to kneel before Him to repent and ask for His forgiveness. He's looking at our faith.

 

It takes faith to believe in God, for without it, we wouldn't be able to please Him (Hebrews 11;6). For us to come to Him in repentance says to Him that we believe in Him. So therefore with that, God is pleased. Just as Abraham's faith made him pure before God, and it was accounted to Him for righteousness..........our faith does the same. It is our faith that keeps us pure. It is the fact that we acknowledged Jesus as being the Head of our lives. No work that we can ever do will account for much before God. The only work we need is the working of faith. For when He looks down from heaven and see that we are confessing the name of His Son, Jesus, He sees our faith.

 

What work are you trying to do for God today? Is it a work of doing things right before God in hopes that He sees your work. Or, are you working your faith, that He will look down from heaven and be pleased? Child of God, don't worry about doing everything right. God looks at your faith.