SEPTEMBER 3, 2025 ~ FROM A PASTOR'S HEART

SEPTEMBER 3 DEVOTIONAL BIBLE READING:  MATTHEW 10:16-26

Too often the faith taught today is a faith of being comfortable...

a faith of prosperity...a faith that doesn't allow hardship

or persecution. Today's faith promises days filled with nothing

but an easy life where everyone agrees with us and we get

what we want. I have seen book titles such as "Write Your

Own Ticket With God" and "Your Best Life Now" and "Have

Faith In Your Faith"...all promising a life of worldly abundance,

physical health, a life without persecution, and only

acceptance and easy living.

This definition of faith is completely foreign to the Scriptures.

All the Prophets of old were persecuted and many killed for

their faith. Jesus was crucified...all His Disciples killed except

one and he was exiled. The Christians in the first centuries

were killed in the most horrific ways imaginable. As far as

promised health...have you heard of the righteous man Job?

Wealth? Jesus said He had nowhere to lay His head. Biblical

faith is toward God, not toward self and certainly not toward

things.

None of us knows what today or tomorrow holds, but we can

know the One who holds today and tomorrow. The church has

learned to desire and trust the things of God, rather than

God. When those things are not there for us, we have no

where to turn...our faith is lost. We must, especially in the

days ahead, move into biblical faith...where God is all we

want and literally God is all we need! The day of your testing

may have already come, or you may be in it now, or it's coming...

we need to know that only God will ever be enough in

this life and the one to come.

Please share your thoughts.