Romans 4:4 Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation.

Have you noticed the people who try to work through life by doing it all themselves are the people who think it is a debt owed to them?

The more we lose focus on God and focus on the world, the more we will think the world owes us because of the work we are doing; or worse still, the more we think society owes us!

When we try to do it all on our own term we should not expect any reward other than what we can gain – not forgetting there are more people out there not following the same rules as us!

Galatians 3:12 The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.”

The law is not the law just because we believe it is; it is the law because that is what is written down and was set out in the beginning.

If we agree to abide by the law, then we agree to live by those rules; it is our choice, but it does not change the law!

If we do have faith in what is written down we will live by those laws written down, or at least try to because we do have hope in what will come out of them.

The law is still the law…

Genesis 15:6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

I always think the words seem to fall short of the mark here when they describe Abrahams faith.

This is not a “OK, I will trust you if I have to” or a “if there is nothing else” kind of faith; but rather a total commitment to what God has said will happen.

It is not a “I will believe it when I see it” or “I will believe this part, but not that part”; rather a belief in all that has been promised by God.

How is your faith measuring up today?