Monday, August 20, 2012

Thank God, For Faith And Love

Good Morning, Great Monday!! Where does faith in Jesus Christ come from? How does one come to truly love Jesus Christ, and others. With uncommon delicacy and diplomacy, Paul is careful to place the credit where it is due,...entirely with God, as addresses his Christian brother Philemon. It is God who is to be thanked, Paul clearly implies, even for Philemon's love and faith in Christ.

I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, because I hear about your love for all His holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus.Philemon 4-5 (NIV)

 While Paul does describe the love and faith as being Philemon's own ("your"),...he is giving God the thanks for it. (as he does in every other epistle) God is the author and finisher of true, Christ-centered faith. God is the spring from which all genuine love for Jesus and His people comes.

We must remember to whom we should pray, and why,...for love and faith.

Father God, we  thank You for the grace of love, and the mercy of faith, in Jesus Christ,...and we pray to You for more. Amen.

"By faith, we are able to accept, that which we cannot understand."

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