Good Credit

Scheduled Reading:
 Nehemiah 6:15-7:72; Psalm 101:4-102:2; Proverbs 20:22-24; Romans 3:19-4:8

Selected Passage: Romans 4:3

A good credit rating is important these days. Not only does it help you get a good interest rate on a loan, it can also help you land a job. A poor credit report can prevent you from being hired. All you have to do to reduce your credit score, is be late a few times in paying your obligations. It is easy to louse up, and very difficult to restore.

Here Paul says that Abraham had credit with God just based on the fact that he BELIEVED what God said. I like those credit terms. And what did that credit in God's eyes gain for Abraham? Righteousness. What a deal. Believe what God says - believe enough to ACT on it- and He will accredit you with righteousness.

Believing and not doing is the same as NOT believing. The results are the same. So, when we say we believe God in a matter, then we ought to follow through with action. Abraham did - he left home, he put his son of the promise on the alter.

What is it that you say you believe God will do? Have you acted on that belief? What are you waiting for?