APR 6

Hebrews 11:1-6
Memorise Jeremiah 6:20
“…your burnt offerings are not acceptable…”

Hebrews 11 gives us a beautiful description of faith. It is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). Faith gives us the ability to be utterly convinced that God spoke the world into existence by the power of His Word, that the physical universe which we can see and touch was created by the unseen yet very real power of God (Hebrews 11:3). However, unless we have faith, we would not be able to believe these things that God had done. We would not be able to wholeheartedly take God at His Word. This is why it is impossible to please God without faith (Hebrews 11:6).

The faithless would say “seeing is believing”. Therefore to them, all the miracles found in the Bible are, at best, mere fairy tales with moral messages, for they cannot be explained or verified “objectively” by “science”. We cannot approach God’s Word with such a perspective, because every pillar of Christianity would then have to be subjected to interpretation from a standpoint of unbelief. This being the case, much of the Bible itself would be subjected to unbelief also. Far from leading us to the truth, we would be led down the path to deception and damnation instead. Reason and logic are not enough to bridge the communication gap between God and man. It is therefore only through faith that we can understand spiritual things.

Sadly, even self-professing Christians deny a literal 6 twenty-four-hour-day creation of the world because they have placed so-called expert scientific opinion above the Word of God. They chose to have faith in scientists and not in the clear teachings of God. This is just one of many tragic outcomes of “faithless hermeneutics” which would ultimately lead to the outright denial of Christ as the sole mediator between God and man. Often times, it is those who are “highly educated” that are especially prone to this. Let us guard ourselves against such a subtle yet deadly attitude of unbelief, and take God’s Word as it is, never questioning, never doubting.

Thought: To the faithless, seeing is believing. To the faithful, believing is seeing.
Prayer: O Lord, help us that we may all walk by faith and not by sight.