Because You Believed What You Heard!

Gen 15:6- Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.  Romans 9:16 says, "It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy."  and Galatians 2:16, "...by observing the law no one will be justified."

Every person in the Bible failed, I  mean big time!  I think of Abraham who not just once, but twice lied and said that his wife was his sister out of fear...and yet here we see that he believed God, that was the only requirement to be called righteous.  It does not list off all of Abraham's mighty accomplishments, although, granted he was a mighty man of God in many ways, but only through the grace of God.

Look at David, who was called the "man after God's own heart."  Really?  He slept with another man's wife, got her pregnant and then had her husband killed.  His family was a mess with rape, adultery, murder, and intrigue; sounds like the stuff of romance novels....How was he a man after God's own heart?  He knew where he had failed and he was not afraid to be honest with God about it...

How about Paul who persecuted believers and then once encountered by their "Savior and Lord" served Him even to his own apparent detriment and death? 

And these are only the tip of the iceberg....

It looks like I am in good company...I have failed in more ways than I can count...I have failed my family, my husband, my son, my parent's, my brothers, fellow believers...maybe my life would not be as interesting of a read as David's, but it certainly would not hold up to the ten commandments or any other legal document..."it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this not of yourselves, but a gift of God so that no one can boast."  No boasting going on here except in the perfection of my savior, Jesus.  He alone has the power to save..."Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!"  The longer I live, the more I come to realize that I need Him more than I think I do!  The longer I live the more I realize who I really am and who He really is!

Yes, I do believe, but help my unbelief Lord!