Good News #45: Believing Right About Jesus Results in Doing Right in All Areas of My Life!

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he…

Proverbs 23:7

Don’t misunderstand.

Prayer, fasting, ministry, church attendance… are all right and good… and lack of these will result to a believer’s disadvantage.

However, Jesus did not come so that we get occupied with DOING the right things instead of BELIEVING the right things… instead of BELIEVING the truth because when we believe the truth…when we believe the right things, we end up doing the right things.

Look, Jesus came to a nation… a people steeped in the law… steeped in doing the right things to prove their own goodness and earn blessings from God… for over a thousand years yet all that failed. It was a performance-based system dependent on man’s finite and wavering goodness.

Jesus came to reveal the largeness of the heart of God… the goodness of God to law-burdened humanity.

Jesus came to manifest the heart of God in seeking out the lost, in healing the sick, freeing those who are oppressed of the devil… Jesus came to show how wonderfully amazing and excessively extravagant the love and goodness of God is…which is free for all to receive…

And everyone who actually believes that God is actually that good… that He would extend grace and mercy without them jumping through hoops to earn it… everyone who believes Him to be that good and more… because of what Jesus has done… that belief, He calls faith.

Faith is nothing more than knowing God to be so good beyond comprehension… believing it and acting towards Him in that regard… coming boldly to Him and asking Him as a child asks a parent for needful things… believing in His goodness.

That is faith… judging Him faithful who had promised [Hebrews 11:11]

Isn’t our Lord God amazing?
All He asks is that we believe Him to act in grace, love and mercy towards us who believe in His exceedingly abundant goodness.
May we believe Him to be everything He says He is… because He truly is
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