Faith is one of the most precious treasures a man can possibly possess. It is a shame that so few understand what the Bible teaches about it.

Faith is often confused with presumption, hope, optimism, determination, superstition and imagination. Actually faith is simply believing based upon the hearing of the truth of the Bible’s Gospel for us today. Faith eliminates having to “do good work” in order to be saved and to be kept saved.

Our faith placed in Christ is total sufficiency, based upon His sufficiency!

This is why we read in Rom. 4:5: “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him (Jesus Christ) that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

Obviously, faith honors God, while doubting His Word must insult and displease Him.

The Apostle John wrote: “If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater…. He that believeth not God hath made Him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of His Son. And this is the record: that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son” (1 John 5:9-11).

Little wonder that we read in Heb. 11:6: “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.”

But why did God give “the law,” if salvation can be obtained by simple faith? Paul answers this for us: “The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us (push us) unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith” (Gal. 3:24). Our striving and failing at keeping the “works” of “the law,” for righteousness sake, actually works to frustrate us and thereby teach us of our need to simply truth the Lord to be our righteousness.

How grateful we all should be that God has told us in Romans about our reconciliation, redemption and justification through Christ, and how we may be saved by faith in Him ALONE!

“[Christ] was delivered for our offences (sins), and was raised again for our justification. Therefore, being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom. 4:25; 5:1).