Thursday, October 11, 2012

Day 3 - Week 78 - Romans 1:17 "For in it God's righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith."

"Faith is all in all, both in the beginning and progress of Christian life. It is not from faith to works, as if faith put us into a justified state, and then works kept us in it; but it is all along from faith to faith; it is faith pressing forward, and gaining the victory over unbelief."
- Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

I love this explanation of "faith to faith."  I love that it portrays faith as a progressive, on-going process.  And affirming that once there is faith, it is not immune from the attacks of the enemy.  But that faith presses forward, and gains the victory.

Encamped along the hills of light,
Ye Christian soldiers, rise,
And press the battle ere the night
Shall veil the glowing skies.
Against the foe in vales below,
Let all our strength be hurled;
Faith is the victory, we know,
That overcomes the world.
Faith is the victory!
Faith is the victory!
Oh, glorious victory
That overcomes the world.

It is not our mighty strength that wins the battle, it is not our great works...it is our faith in the righteousness of God, given to us through the gospel of our Savior, Jesus Christ.  Faith is the victory!

The faith in knowing that Genesis 1:1 is truth, and that Revelation 22:20-21 is truth, and everything in between.  Faith as small as a mustard seed, faith that is able to move mountains.  Start to finish...faith to faith. 




 

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