God\u2019s will is that human beings should enter into a moral relationship with him. All his covenants are for this purpose. \u201cWhy doesn\u2019t God save me?\u201d you ask. He has saved you, but you haven\u2019t entered into a moral relationship with him. \u201cWhy hasn\u2019t God answered my prayer?\u201d He has answered it, but this isn\u2019t the point. The question you must answer is, Will I step into a moral relationship with him? All of God\u2019s great blessings are finished and complete, but they aren\u2019t mine until I enter into a relationship based on his covenant. <\/p>\n
Entering into a moral relationship with God requires exertion on my part. Just as God went beyond himself in his relationship with humanity, becoming flesh for our sake, so I must go beyond myself in my covenant with him. I can\u2019t just sit back and wait. Waiting for God is like unbelief; it means that I lack faith in him, that I\u2019m waiting for a specific thing to happen so that then I can have faith in that<\/i>. God will never do the thing I\u2019m waiting for, because that isn\u2019t the basis of his relationship with humanity.<\/p>\n
Faith in God is the rarest thing. Most of us have faith only in our feelings. We don\u2019t believe God unless he places something in our hand, something we can point to and say, \u201cNow I believe.\u201d There\u2019s no faith in that. God says, \u201cTurn to me and be saved\u201d (Isaiah 45:22), not \u201cTurn to what I\u2019ve given you.\u201d<\/p>\n
When I truly enter into a covenant relationship with God, letting go of everything else, I have no sense of having achieved something by my own merit. There\u2019s no human ingredient in it at all, just an overwhelming feeling of being brought into union with him, the whole thing transfigured with peace and joy. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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