DAD'S RAMBLINGS – Hearing and Believing
Romans 10:16-17, 21
"But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, 'Lord, who has believed our report?' So then, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: 'Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the end of the world" .....But to Israel he says: 'All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people.' "
Hearing is requisite to faith. The issue, though, is not the hearing of God's word, but the believing. It is one thing to hear the boss' order to do something; it is quite another to believe it and act in faith to do it. Everyone has heard God speak through creation and conscience, but not all have responded to that word to produce obedience. We are "a disobedient and contrary people" who want to do things our own way. I need to be careful to respond to God's word in believe and faith that produces obedience.
TODAY'S THOUGHT: Hearing precedes belief and faith that produces obedience.
Have a hearing day. Love you.
Romans 10:16-17, 21
"But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, 'Lord, who has believed our report?' So then, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: 'Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the end of the world" .....But to Israel he says: 'All day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people.' "
Hearing is requisite to faith. The issue, though, is not the hearing of God's word, but the believing. It is one thing to hear the boss' order to do something; it is quite another to believe it and act in faith to do it. Everyone has heard God speak through creation and conscience, but not all have responded to that word to produce obedience. We are "a disobedient and contrary people" who want to do things our own way. I need to be careful to respond to God's word in believe and faith that produces obedience.
TODAY'S THOUGHT: Hearing precedes belief and faith that produces obedience.
Have a hearing day. Love you.
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