Faith is What We Cannot See

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

Today’s Notes from Scriptures

Many of us claim that we have faith in God, trusting that He is real and that His promises are true. But if God asked us to act on our faith--trusting in what we cannot see--could He count our faith as righteousness?

Abraham believed God's promises. Even as he sat at the foot of Mount Moriah, preparing to go and sacrifice Isaac, he turned to his traveling party and said, “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.” (Genesis 22:5) He trusted that God would somehow intervene, and they would both come back. He knew this because God had told him that in Isaac his seed would be blessed. He didn't know how God was going to do it, but he believed God's promise.

Was Abraham righteous because he went up the mountain? No. Was he righteous because he raised the knife to take his son's life? No. Abraham was righteous for one reason: he believed, and his faith was counted unto him as righteousness.

Faith is believing what God says is true--even when we don't understand how it will all work out in the end.

Faith and obedience are inescapably related. There is no saving faith in God apart from obedience to God, and there can be no godly obedience without godly faith.  John MacArthur