“FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD!”

 

Galatians 2:17-21                 (ESV)

“[17] BUT IF,in our endeavor to be justified in CHRIST, we too were found to be sinners, is CHRIST then a servant of sin? CERTAINLY NOT! [18] For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. [19] For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to GOD. [20] I have been crucified with CHRIST. It is no longer I who live, but CHRIST WHO lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I LIVE BY “FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD”, WHO loved me and gave HIMSELF for me. [21] I do not nullify the grace of GOD, for if righteousness were through the law, then CHRIST died for no purpose.”

Not only do we have to HAVE FAITH in what the SON OF GOD “has done” for us on Calvary, we also have to HAVE FAITH that HE “is going” to deliver us from “this world” one day!!  

For this humble servant, BELIEVING that ROYALTY such as JESUS would GIVE UP (Sacrifice) HIMSELF for a wretched being such as I “doesn’t make sense”!  There is nothing to adequately explain this, NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE TRY??  

I AM NOT WORTHY!!!  So why did THE CREATOR freely surrender HIS LIFE for a group of people who were worthless in their own sight??  The answer to that question is beyond my comprehension.  

HIS PLAN KNEW that I would be precisely the person I have become!  Therefore, I MUST have “FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD” has been IMPUTED to me, and I am SO GLAD that HE CHOSE ME IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (Ephesians 1:4)!!!