HIS VOICE DAILY DEVOTIONAL
THURSDAY, 9TH JUNE 2022
TOPIC: THE GOODNESS OF GOD TO ABRAHAM II
TEXT: ROMANS 4:13
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. KJV
Yesterday, we studied how God gave Abraham the promise to make him a Father of many nations, which means he will become the heir of the world and the world is his inheritance. This was God's promise and Abraham believed. In Romans chapter four from verse one through twenty five, this account was explained clearly which established that God's dealing with Abraham was purely based on the righteousness of faith. The law has nothing to do with it. It happened before the law. Many might want to lay hold on circumcision, yet the reason for it was revealed as well. Let's start our reading from one through eleven;
What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying , Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, And whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only , or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: KJV
So, we see that circumcision was only a seal of the righteousness that Abraham had in God. It is simply to show that Abraham trusted God and believed in his promise to him. This was established so that, they, who were circumcised and those who weren't and are supposed to be enemies of God can later together come under the umbrella of faith and receive God's grace with no disparity. Because, they who were circumcised and had the law fall short of it and couldn't keep it. So, God haven established his everlasting covenant with Abraham, stood upon the righteousness of Abraham's faith in him, and pour out his grace upon all who will walk in the same step of faith that Abraham walked, by believing in salvation from sin and death through the death and resurrection of Christ.
PRAYER
Lord, I see what you have done and realise that your grace is for me. I accept salvation in Christ Jesus and believed that God raised him from
Written by: Mopelola Oyeniran
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