Today’s Thought “Forgetting the Past?” G. Ward

Romans 4

¹⁷ (As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, that is, God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that do not exist.

 

A ridiculous promotion of heresy has become an acceptable expression; that is, believing that man is with ability to speak things into existence. This is solely attributable to Holy God’s justification, having called unworthy sinners (like you and me) unto surrender to Christ’s reign and rule for our lives, by imputing His righteousness to us. Moreover, God made or declared Jesus “sin” and punished Him, though He was not a sinner. Those whom He justifies, He will conform to the image of His Son. Howbeit, that any selfish human has reduced such preeminence to such absurdism that now absolutely can avoid sufferings of sorts and depletion (materially and emotionally)? While many seek to make Holy God solely an American God, HE won’t be contained by you or me (*John 4:24). Time here will soon be over and because our estimations as to when is unknown, we’d all do well to pursue a contextualized study of HIS Word (where true power exists – *Ro. 10:17); realizing that what was available to many of our predecessors (even while they were owned by unruly men) is the same just God now. I would imagine that if they could have spoken a word…