“MUST BELIEVE!”

Hebrews 11:6                                (ESV)

“And without FAITH it is impossible to please HIM, for whoever would draw near to GOD “MUST BELIEVE” that HE exists and that HE rewards those who seek HIM.”

Since “without FAITH it is impossible to please HIM”, and we seem to be forever trying to prove how much we can do on our own, why is it that we find it so easy to believe that being blessed with things of “this world” is evidence that GOD is pleased with our lives?  Sure, GOD says King David was a man after GOD’s own heart (1 Samuel 13:14) and David wrote Psalms 24:1 which says “The earth is the LORD's AND THE FULLNESS THEREOF, the world and those who dwell therein”, GOD still had to judge the sin in the life of David when he tried to circumvent GOD’s Sovereignty by lying with Bathsheba and then killing her husband in an attempt to cover the sin up!  

If we (mainly I) really BELIEVED that “HE (GOD) exists and that HE rewards those who seek HIM”, why do I continue to violate HIS Word by doing what pleases us instead of pleasing GOD?  If HE rewards sin with Judgement (Galatians 6:7), why do I sometimes CHOOSE to bring Judgement upon my life?   The Apostle Paul says in Romans 7:15-25 that he did what he hated!  But why???  It must be in verse 23 where he wrote “but I see in my members another law WAGING WAR against the LAW OF MY MIND and MAKING ME CAPTIVE TO THE LAW OF SIN that dwells in my members.”

The unbelievable physical price that was paid for my sin on the cross was devastatingly gruesome!  But the Spiritual price was SO GREAT that even the sun refused to shine when HE was on the cross (Luke 23:44-45)!  When the Light of the World (John 8:12) was removed, only darkness remained!!!  GOD has demonstrated throughout Scripture that HE cannot abide sin, yet we (our sin nature) continues trying to prove our plan will be “good enough”!  We “MUST BELIEVE” that HE IS, and HE will be GOD, no matter what the enemy battles our minds with!