“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.” (Galatians 5:6 NKJV)
Faith is based on knowledge, not mental or intellectual knowledge, but revelation knowledge of God. The level of faith, trust, or confidence in God you manifest is directly proportional to your depth of revelation knowledge of God.
You cannot trust God beyond or above the truths you know about God. You cannot trust God implicitly if you don’t know Him intimately!
Paul states, “So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.” (Rom. 10:17 NLT).
He further queries, “But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them.” (Rom. 10:17 NLT).
Sadly, many believers and servants of God today who are supposed to preach the Good News about Christ and His finished work of redemption to people to know the love of Christ and so put their trust in Him are often misrepresenting God to the people.
Faith is not just acknowledging, knowing, or recognizing that God is the Almighty and that there is nothing too hard, difficult, or impossible for Him to do. But much more than that, it is to know that because of His great love for you, God has used His divine power to give you everything pertaining to life and godliness through Christ Jesus (2 Pet. 1:3).
True and living faith is not merely based on the revelation knowledge of God’s supernatural power but, more importantly, on the revelation knowledge of God’s supernatural love.
Today, many believers who know that God can do all things still struggle to trust God wholeheartedly because they do not know how much God loves them.
Without a clear and deep spiritual insight, understanding, or revelation knowledge of God’s perfect, unconditional, and infinite love for you in Christ Jesus, you will always struggle to trust God’s willingness to do all things for you even though you don’t doubt His ability or power to do all things.
It is one thing to know that God has the power to do what you are asking for, but it is another thing to know that God is willing to grant you your requests because He loves you so much and is well pleased with you in Christ Jesus.
Sadly, many believers today who do not doubt God’s ability do have doubts about God’s willingness simply because they are not entirely convinced that God completely loves and accepts them in Christ. Consequently, they are constantly battling with unbelief and doubt.
True faith cannot flourish and function well without love!
The Scripture reveals that faith works through love.
Galatians 5:6 – NKJV
6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
Though you know God’s power, your faith cannot work well or produce any significant result if you don’t know God’s love. Faith only works through love!
The more you recognize, believe in, and appropriate God’s love for you in Christ, the more your faith will be strengthened and productive.
Until you realize, understand, and accept that God loves you unconditionally, infinitely, completely, constantly, or everlastingly, you will not be able to trust God implicitly, completely, or continuously.
Therefore, if you constantly struggle to trust God, you need the revelation of God’s perfect, unconditional, and infinite love for you in Christ.
As you increase in spiritual understanding of God’s love for you in Christ, your faith or confidence in God will naturally become stronger.
You will never be able to trust God beyond the level or depth of your revelation or experiential knowledge of God’s love for you in Christ Jesus.
Today, many believers who passionately seek to coax or coerce God to do something for them are ignorant of how much God loves them. While they are fully convinced about God’s unlimited power to do all things, they are yet to be fully confident about God’s endless love to do all things freely and willingly for them.
Nothing emboldens you to approach God with your requests as much as knowing that you are unconditionally loved and accepted by God in Christ (Eph. 1:6). Nothing imparts, transmits, or instills faith into your soul or mind as the revelation knowledge of God’s unconditional, eternal, or infinite love for you.
Therefore, when you spend more time daily to meditate profoundly and focus on God’s love for you, which is demonstrated ultimately by Christ’s substitutionary death for you on the cross, your faith or confidence in God will be boosted (1 John 3:16, 4:9).
Similarly, you cannot claim faith in God without loving God. Your love shows your faith, for the Scripture declares that faith only works through love (Gal. 5:6). Therefore, your faith level can be measured or determined by your love level.
Your attitude toward God’s Word reveals or makes known how much you love God!
The Lord Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” (John 14:15 NKJV).
“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.” (John 14:23 NKJV).
Moreover, how much you love God can also be measured or determined by how much you love the people God created in His image.
1 John 4:20-21 – NKJV
20 “If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
Beloved, seek to grow or increase in the revelation knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ through constant and diligent reading, studying, and meditation in God’s Word, and watch your faith become more effective and productive.
Prayer:
Dear Holy Spirit, reveal to me, teach, and help me daily to understand and walk increasingly in God’s love for me, in Jesus’ name. Amen.