MONDAY - 30TH AUGUST, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
TREKKING MILES TO DEBATE FAITH - Series 002
Read Hebrews 11
Hebrews 11:2, KJV
"For by it the elders obtained a good report."
By what did the elders obtained a good report? We said, faith. Now, if you look at that place, you'll see that faith is a thing that works because it has been afore worked. We said it has been proven. The Bible says what?
Deuteronomy 19:15, KJV
"...at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established."
What makes faith appealing to us and a thing we want to work also is because it has been proven and we know that it can't fail if we rightly work it. Some people were testified to have obtained by faith. It means for faith to be proven, it not only took a person but myriads to purchase that good witness for faith. That's why I can't doubt the workability of faith. With the numerous people that worked faith under their own different circumstances in the Bible, I am sure that should convince anyone that faith has been thoroughly proven and concluded on to be trustworthy if worked.
We humans are skeptics and if you tell someone that a thing works, he'll like to collect from you proves and testimonies that it works. Many people are shying away from being the first user now. They need someone who has done the trial for them. Look, we are not left without a witness. We can without shame give an answer to such people's question. That place says, "for by it the ELDERS received a good report."
What did you see there? "Elder" or "Elders?" It says elders. Faith has been thoroughly proven. It was worked by A and it worked. B also worked it and it worked yet, it never stopped with them. Righteous Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Joseph etc all worked it and it proved for them. Even if we have reasons to doubt the workability of faith before, we have none again because it has been indeed tested to be a thing that holds fast.
Psalms 12:6, KJV
"The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times."
That's what makes God's word infallible. It has been tried. It's trustworthiness is like a silver refined seven times. How will that silver look? New, pure, neat without any impurity. But did they just arrive at that height? No. A silver that's trusted is one that's not only tried once but indeed tried and tried until it can be ascertained that it is pure. Such long process of attainment of infallibility is what faith passes through before its commendation and recommendation to us.
No one can call us a cheat over that because all these people mentioned in Hebrews 11 that worked faith worked it at different times and on different circumstances yet faith still answered them.
God's Word is pure like silver tried or refined seven times. Faith is proven as well because it was worked by myriads of elders that obtained results. Through many, it was proved to be sure. Imagine if you're asking about the soundness of a product and you can meet ten people to testify about such product, will you not be convinced?
Today, I can say receiving by faith is not archaic though faith and its working passes from the hands of some elders to us. It answered them long time ago and it will answer us in our own time. People wrote their chronicles of faith. Men will rise to speak and write about ours. No one operates faith that doesn't become a hero. It is time for the world to tell your story of faith. It's time for you to deploy faith to do heroic deeds.
May you have an answer.
PRAYER: Father, let the pen of people write my story of accomplishment by faith on earth too. Let me surmount by faith and defeat by faith.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Job 34:1-36:33, 2 Corinthians 4:1-12, Psalm 44:1-8, Proverbs 22:10-12
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