Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional

shows us how God works. He requires us to trust his words and his promises even when the opposite of those promises is happening to us.

WHEN LIFE DOESN’T WORK OUT

You must realize that God allows people to stumble so that they will despair of trusting in themselves. God is the one who stamps out inborn arrogance.

Similarly, Paul admits in Philippians 3:12 that he has not yet reached this goal. In Matthew 5:6, Christ says that those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are blessed.

These people are astonished that they can’t comprehend it as fully as they would like. They hunger and thirst for it. They yearn for it more and more. They never get tired of hearing about this truth.

We can never learn this truth completely or brag that we understand it fully. Learning this truth is an art. We will always remain students of it, and it will always be our teacher.

The people who truly understand that they are justified by faith and put it into practice don’t brag that they have fully mastered it. Rather, they think of it as a pleasant taste or aroma that they are always pursuing.

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Romans 3:28

A LIFELONG PURSUIT