Brock Hughes. Outside Reading

I am reading this other book called The Call To God’s Destiny. It is about passing different tests that will allow you to fill God’s destiny in your life. This isn’t about those tests and what they are but more about a specific passage that was in the text that talked about faith. One question I think many people have is what is the relationship of faith to works? Well I don’t think this is an easily answered question but it did start to try to explain the relationship in this book. Basically, it stated that faith produces obedience. I never really understood the concept of that actually happening. I really never understood why obedience and actions were even important in Christianity, because basically we are not judged on our actions, but I now see how important it is that obedience is present.

This is something that doesn’t exactly make sense still but it can be broken down even more. Basically if one has obedience than they have God’s presence, if one has God’s presence then they are in God’s favor. Obedience is important because it proves that we are pursuing God and a relationship with Jesus Christ. For instance, disobedience costs the presence of God, and specific examples are Cain, Adam, and Eve. All of these people fell out of the favor of God because they were disobedient to His command. However, we are called to be obedient but if we are not, we just need to repent and we can regain the presence of God. How amazing is that, He knows we are going to screw up and all we have to do to be back in His favor is to ask for forgiveness, wow.