January 12, 2025
Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please Him.
Here we are told that faith is the decisive thing in the Christian’s relationship to God.
It seems to me therefore that “believers” is an excellent name for Christians. Not only because it expresses the contrast between them and those who doubt or deny. But because to believe is life’s highest art.
No one else can practice it but Christians.
To live in the Biblical sense is to live for God, to live one’s life as before Him.
But this is the very thing that is difficult about living. For I dare not show myself to God the way I am.
All heathens know that, no matter how deeply fallen they may be, religiously and morally. Therefore they never approach their deities without offerings.
But Jesus Christ has told us how it is possible for us to stand before God. By faith in Him, my Substitute, I can with confidence appear before Him. That which was between God and me has once for all been removed. On the Chief Comer Stone He has established a place of refuge for all death-sentenced sinners.
I depend upon this. And move thither.
To live in faith is an entirely new way of existing. I am, in the first place, in agreement with God that I in myself am lost and therefore have no right to meet God, deserving only to be cast away from Him into eternal perdition.
But I am also in agreement with God with respect to His grace. I have accepted His pardon. And when God Himself is my Substitute, then I have enough, enough for all eternity!
And now I do not expect to be anything else before God but that which I am in my Substitute.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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