Honey From The Rock

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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
Copyright 2007

YOUR SPIRITUAL CREDIT REPORT

This entry was posted on 02-10-2010 and is filed under STUDIES IN GENESIS.

How's your credit report? Many people are worried about their credit report. Enterprising companies have build a profitable business on credit reports. You can check your credit report on some Internet sites. But how is your spiritual credit report? That is our question for the day. Let's take a look at the finest credit report a man could ever have. Our text is found in Genesis 15.

God had promised Abram an heir. But Abram was childless. He humanly thought that perhaps one of the slaves born in his house (Eliezer of Damascus) might qualify for the promised heir (15:2,3). But God had other plans, more noble plans, higher plans! "Now the word of the LORD came to him: 'This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body will be your heir.' He took him outside and said, 'Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.' Then He said to him, 'Your offspring will be that [numerous].'" (15:4, 5 CSB). Isn't that amazing? Man proposes but God disposes. Eliezer was not whom God had in mind. Abram himself would father a child and he would be the heir. The tent conversation moves outside where Abram can scan the sky. Even without a telescope he was overwhelmed with the starry host. Innumerable! Yet God tells this old man that his descendants will be that numerous.

Now here is Abram's "credit report." Look carefully at the next verse. "Abram believed the LORD, and He credited to him as righteousness" (15:6 CSB). God chalked it up to Abram's account. Because He believed. The Amplified Old Testament says, "He counted it to him as righteousness [right standing with God]." Paul cites Genesis 15:6 in Romans 4:3 to prove his point that Abraham was justified by faith and not by works. Ten years had come and gone since God first promised Abram with an heir. Why should he trust God? But he did! He "believed" God. The Hebrew verb is aman, "to confirm, affirm." We get "amen" from this word. Faith is saying "amen" to God! And that is what gave him the highest credit report possible ~ God credited his faith, his "amen," as righteousness. So, how's your spiritual credit report?

Prayer: Everlasting Father, God of Abraham, may we always say "amen" to You, in faith, believing Your promises, even when it seems humanly impossible to do so. We place our faith in You, in Your Son's blessed name, Amen.