Fat Monk


30 Jun 2025

Law and faith (3)

".. [Abraham] did not doubt God's promise; his faith filled him with power, and he gave praise to God. He was absolutely sure that God would be able to do what he had promised. That is why Abraham, through faith, “was accepted as righteous by God”.

The words “he was accepted as righteous” were not written for him alone. They were written also for us who are to be accepted as righteous, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from death. Because of our sins he was handed over to die, and he was raised to life in order to put us right with God."

(Romans 4.20-25 GNB)

In contemporary parlance, we might say Abraham "went all in" knowing there was no law that could protect him from total loss, if God did not "do what he had promised". Law, as we know it, did not exist in Abraham's time. He literally did not have anything to hold on to with regard to his encounter with God. When God called him out, he did not have any fallback.

And yet, Abraham believed and obeyed God.

That is the kind of faith that God desires from me. Am I "all in" for God? Every day?