Romans 4
It can be tempting to run around trying to do good works, to try to become right with God, but we cannot work our way into God’s good graces.
He already loves us completely.
By putting our faith in Jesus, God saves us and gives us the gift of righteousness. This means that God covers our sins with Jesus righteousness.
Romans 4:3 “Abraham believed God and He credited it to him as righteousness.”
Abraham is the father of both Jewish people and non-Jewish people – He is the Father of us all.
Just as God had promised, He made Abraham the father of many nations.
When Abraham was facing an impossible situation, having a child when both he and Sarah were old and past the age that you could have children, the Bible says “against all hope, Abraham in hope, believed.”
And because he believed God’s promise that he would have a child in his old age – it came true.
God did just what He had promised.
Abraham never doubted that God would do as He had promised.
It was his unwavering faith that God credited to him as righteousness.
This principle is not just for Abraham. When we put our faith in Jesus, as our Savior, God also credits us with righteousness.
Through our faith, we are made right with God.
