God's hall of Fame

Hebrews 11:23-29

Your faith is amazing!  Have you ever given thought to the amount of faith that is yours?  It would be impossible to live life without faith, each day you get up and by faith believe that the electricity is going to work, that the essentials for life, your coffee pot will make coffee, and the car will start.  You, by faith, believe that the bus driver who takes the children to school will keep them safe, and that your home will not be destroyed while you are gone.  You believe that a white line in the middle of the road will keep the on coming car that is only feet from you from crossing it and having a head-on- collision.  By faith you trust in the pilot of the airline to get you to your destination.  Yes, faith is required to live life, so in that we all live by faith, it is not faith for faiths sake that is of great value; it is the object of that faith.

Hebrews 11 is about people, who had great faith, and they made God’s hall of fame, they became celebrities in heaven and on earth, because they made God the object of their faith.  Moses was such a person, and we have his “Hall of Fame “ account found in verses 23-29.  It begins with parents of faith in God, who believed in God more than they feared the king of Egypt.  Moses by faith refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, and chose to be mistreated with God’s chosen people.  He was looking to a greater reward than the treasures of Egypt; he was looking to Christ.  We are told in verses 27-29, “By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the King, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.  By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.  By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as if on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.”

As stated above, we all live by faith, we put faith in so many things that we have little or no understanding of, like electricity, we put faith in political parties, but that is not the kind of faith that brings you into right standing with God.  If we back-up a few verses in Hebrews 11, to verse six we find the answer to walking in victory, no matter what is going on around you.  Verse six; “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice