My dentist is the best. He and his staff are so gentle and skillful with their equipment, I don’t even have to get the slightest bit nervous about going to see them. I sit back and relax without a hint of anxiety because I am so confident in their abilities. Every trip to my dentist is a pleasant and comfortable experience because he is so good at what he does.
When I speak like that about my dentist, who am I glorifying? Myself? No, I’m giving credit to my dentist, and telling you that he can be trusted.
We have a tendency not to make our faith known because we don’t want people to automatically assume we are exceptionally humble, devout, or pious people. We don’t want them to think too highly of us. But what our faith actually says is little about ourselves and much about God.
When you tell the world about your faith in God, it brings glory to Him.
Look at what the Bible says about Abraham in Romans 4:20 “He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.”
When Abraham believed God, even though everything in his flesh would say this is impossible, it glorified God. He demonstrated that he trusted God’s promise, even though he couldn’t understand how God would do it.
When you and I live out our lives in this present world with faith in God and tell men so, we are telling them that we believe God is worth trusting. Even though we don’t understand precisely how He will fulfill his promises, we believe He will.
We bring Him great glory by trusting His word and believing that what He has promised, He is able also to perform.
The next verse says that Abraham’s faith was imputed to him as righteousness. God considered him righteous because of his unwavering faith in Him.
Then it says this: “Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.”
The same faith in God that made Abraham righteous is the same faith that makes you and I righteous.
Do you trust God today? Are you fully persuaded that what God has promised you in Christ, He is able also to do?
I am. I believe He’s telling the truth.
How about you?