It’s Wednesday, and time for your daily devotional. Faith isn’t a New Testament concept; it’s seen throughout the Old Testament. Abraham is the Father of Faith, but even before him were Abel, Enoch, and Noah. They were men of faith long before Paul taught about walking by faith and not by sight. In today’s daily devotional, to walk with God, you must walk by faith. He is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore.
Created in God’s Image
Adam, the first man, was created in God’s image and, for a time, enjoyed fellowship with God. Placed in a beautiful garden, He tilled it at God’s command, for the Lord put him in Eden to dress and keep it. God brought Adam all the creatures he’d created for Adam to name. Then God gave Adam a helper, Eve, who was also made in the image of God. There was obviously a close bond between God and Adam because God would visit Adam in the cool of the day.
Therefore, before his fall, Adam walked with God. There can’t be a true relationship with God without faith. Adam had no previous examples of faith, but it defined his relationship with God. In today’s daily devotional, you can enjoy fellowship with God because of the second Adam’s work.
Noah Found Grace
Adam’s son Abel, by faith, offered a more excellent sacrifice to God than his brother Cain. Enoch was translated and didn’t see death because he pleased God. As Hebrews 11:6 declares, “Without faith, it is impossible to please him.” Then Noah came on the scene, and God was grieved at the wickedness of mankind, so He moved to destroy man from the face of the earth, but Genesis 6:8 says, “Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”
Noah obeyed God by faith and built an ark, never witnessing rain. Verse 22 says that Noah did everything God commanded him. Noah’s faith saved his entire household and preserved life for the earth’s repopulation. In your daily devotional, walking by faith is agreeing with God and obeying His commands.
Test of His Faith
God called Abraham to leave his kindred and country and go to a land He would show him. By faith, Abraham obeyed the call. Being well advanced in years, he believed God that he would father a child from his own loins. Romans 4:19 says, “And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old.” Abraham passed the ultimate test when God told him to sacrifice his only son on Mt. Moriah.
Abraham dutifully made all the preparations to carry this out, yet it was a test of his faith that God used to foreshadow the sacrifice of His only son for the sins of the world. In today’s daily devotional, God made sure their stories were recorded so that you could see what faith looked like in man’s beginnings.
Trust God and Walk by Faith
In Wednesday’s daily devotional, have faith in God, the Lord of all creation, who has a plan and a purpose for you. Not everyone will walk in obedience to Him because they are free to make their own choice. In Deuteronomy 32:20, God references an evil generation, saying He would hide His face from “children in whom is no faith.” Habakkuk 2:4 condemns pride but says, “The just shall live by his faith.” In today’s daily devotional, trust in the God who never changes, and walk by faith.
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