Devotional Guide -- March 30

Saturday, March 30, 2019
The Holy Bible: 

God Speaks to Man

“Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.” Romans 10:17

Do you ever feel that your faith is just not as strong as it could be? That you are going through things that are more difficult than they should be? You know you believe, but you are just feeling a little shaky about why you believe?

Read the above verse very carefully. Faith doesn’t just materialize out of thin air. It is not some whimsical emotion that falls unexpectedly upon us. Hebrews says, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Substance is something that we can hold in our hands, evidence of tangible things. So how can we acquire such faith?

Only one way. It comes from God’s Word – both incarnate and written. We receive the Word incarnate as we attend church regularly, hear our pastor declare the truth of Jesus Christ, accept him and trust him as our own savior. We receive the written Word as we open that big Book and read for ourselves the eternal verities that have been so carefully preserved for us.

If we are experiencing wavering faith, the wavering probably is our own fault. We are not regularly hearing good preaching to teach us about the Word Incarnate, and we are not regularly studying Scripture for ourselves.

Prayer: Father, forgive us for not taking better care of our faith by nurturing it.

“I am the resurrection and the life.” John 11:25
Lenten Devotional Guide
prepared for Homosassa United Methodist Church, Spring 2009
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Director