Has Your Faith Found a Resting Place?
Daily Reflections, Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Today's Scripture: Jeremiah 17:5; Psalms 20:7
There’s a funny thing about faith these days. It has become really popular. Political candidates talk regularly about their faith. Actors and celebrities discuss their faith. Faith, it seems, is all the rage.
But what is their faith in? You see, it’s not faith that’s important. Because even the atheist has faith—he trusts that there is no God.
What’s important is the object of your faith. For many, their faith is in their own abilities. For others, it’s in a deity that can’t talk back. A god who has long been buried. Still, there are some who profess a watered-down version of Christianity, but their faith is really not in the God of the Bible, it’s not in Jesus Christ.
Eliza E. Hewitt wrote these famous words, “My faith has found a resting place, not in device nor creed. I trust the ever-living One. His wounds for me shall plead.”
It wasn’t her faith that was great. It was the object of her faith—Jesus Christ. He was great. He paid the penalty for her sin. He is the One Who has the power to save.
Faith in anything or anyone else may be fashionable. But it’s also futile and eternally hopeless.
Has your faith found a resting place?
Today's Quote: Enough for me that Jesus saves; this ends my
fear and doubt. A sinful soul, I come to Him,
He’ll never cast me out.—Eliza E. Hewitt
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