O LORD, do good to those who are good, whose hearts are in tune with you. [Psalm 125.4]
You know, we often look at scripture through rose-colored glasses.
So many times we hear scriptures quoted about all the good that God is and does, but overlook scriptures like this one that qualifies that promise! What is the qualifier? "...those who are good, whose hearts are in tune with you."
God doesn't just bless everyone. There is this matter of obedience. Even more profound in the Age of Grace is the necessity for the obedience of faith!
Too many people have consoled themselves that just because they don't live lives of obvious faith, they are still "in" because they accepted Jesus at some point in their life. The problem with that is, how can a person know he has faith unless he is operating in faith every day?
James wrote that faith without works is dead. In other words, faith that has no obvious results is no faith at all. So, before we go thinking we are "in" the obedience of faith, we need to take a careful inventory of the works in our lives that look like Jesus (or don't).
We may need a tune-up.
Father, I want to be in tune with You - obedient in faith.
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