Faith Moves God

There is something about our faith that touches God. There’s hardly another quality we can have that moves Him emotionally so much. He just hast to know if we have faith in Him, and it matters desperately to Him that we do.

If you want to please God today, then, demonstrate faith in Him. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Heb. 11:6)

Because your faith matters so much to God, He orchestrates, or at least allows, trials so He can test it out. When you do have faith, there’s a reward for it, not only now, but in the future. So it’s a quality to work on. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations (trials, proving):  That the trial (proving, trying) of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: (1 Pet. 1:6-7)

Faith has always been important to God as far back as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. He gave them everything they wanted, with only one thing to avoid… the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in Genesis 2. In Genesis 3, you see the first trial of faith. Did Eve believe and trust God and His word? No. She failed, and there were eternal consequences. God got His answer on whether the first people on earth had faith. He was displeased.

Who else had their faith tested? Noah. In his day, they had never seen rain. God tried his faith. He told him it would rain, and he better build an arch. Noah built it and pleased God.

Remember when the Israelites crossed the Jordan into the promised land and the first city God wanted them to overtake was Jericho? He promised them they would take the city. But he tried their faith. He had them march around the city once for each of six days, and seven times on the seventh day. Why? Would they believe, and thus obey God? Yes, they did. And God was pleased.

God loves faith because when we believe, we obey. When we disbelieve, we rebel. Faith and obedience mean the world to God.

Think of other characters in the Bible who had a command from God to obey. Did they believe God? You can find examples that go both ways. It’s an interesting study.

Remember, faith is an exercise, and God likes to test it. Pass the test today for His pleasure.