Subject: 2 Cor. 1:20 |
Bible Note: Your absolutely correct. However faith does not require God to do anything. God will honor your faith if it is in agreement with His will and it leads to the fulfillment of His purpose. In other words God is in control, it is His will, His pleasure, that will be accomplished. Our job is to find out what God is doing and get into step with what he is doing, not the other way around. Our faith has to be that whatever God does, whatever things occur we can be sure God is in control and that God will make any situation work out to our good. It may not be to our liking but it will be to our good. More importantly our faith has to be in Christ Jesus and through Him we have life eternal. Take the Hebrew children for example. They went into fiery furnace not knowing if they would survive or not. Their faith told them however whatever occurred it would be to their good. It so happened at this point in time that it served God’s purpose to save them. Does that mean the saints that lit Nero’s garden with the flames from their body had less faith? No never! It means it served God’s purpose for them to die singing hymns of glory to God while their bodies were consumed by flames as a testimony that God can be glorified in death also. The instant they quit singing and died they were in the presence of God to their good. Their testimony helped make Christianity the state religion of Rome. See their death served God’s purpose. |