I was reading in Habakkuk this morning and wanted to pass on some encouragement. Paul quotes the verse above twice in his epistles. He writes that in the Gospel the righteousness of God is revealed “from faith for faith." (Rom 1:17) What does this mean?
In Galatians 3:11-14 says “it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law… Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us… so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.” No one is justified before God by their own works of righteousness according to the law, because this is not reliant on the faithfulness of God, but on the faithfulness of humans. The life of faith is built upon the faithfulness of God!
Application for me this morning (simple yet hard for me to grasp): the life of faith is NOT based on my own faithfulness to God!! It is based on His faithfulness to me, as one who He has grafted in to the faithful remnant of His people. We are being made faithful because He IS faithful!!
From faith (His faithfulness to us) for faith (the life of faith in Him)
(See also Micah 7:18-20)
-B
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