Hebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
Doubters and unbelievers never please God, because only with real faith can we please God. God wants our unwavering faith in Him, in all that He is, in all that we ask, and in all that we do. The faith it takes to believe in God is spiritual faith, that is the faith given to every sinner that God saves. Galatians 5:22 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,” As we all know fruits of any kind are produced and spiritual fruits are produced by the Holy Spirit and therefore the natural human soul does not have them. Humanly speaking everyone has a faith but they do not have saving faith and this is why the Holy Spirit gives it to us. This is why the natural person will never on their own have enough faith to be saved, and why salvation is a gift of the Holy Spirit and not produced by a lost soul. A lost soul will never do anything pleasing to God, because without salvation they have no faith in God. However, it is never pleasing to God when a soul that He has saved and Jesus has redeemed does not have enough faith to trust Him. God said of a Christian with a wavering faith, “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)” Heb. 10:23. How could we ever trust God to save us, to keep us, and never leave nor forsake us, if He was not faithful without doubt? Our salvation is our most needed possession in a Christians life, and salvation is all about trusting God. That is why God said, “…for he that cometh to God must believe that he is…”. What about our prayer to God, do we without doubt or question trust God to hear and answer our prayers? Why pray to God about anything when there is one single molecule doubt? This is why God said, “without faith it is impossible to please him” and He did not mean weak faith, faith mixed with doubt, but with unwavering faith. Look at James 1:6 “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.” When we as Christians pray to God, we must put our human pride behind us, we cannot trust in ourselves if we ask God to handle something. One of the hardest things for Christians to do is to give-up total control to God, but we must remember “without faith it is impossible to please him”, that is faith in Him without our help. We must always be reminded that worry after prayer is sinful, because either we trust God in our prayer or we do not. “For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.” God went on to say in James 1:7 - 8 “For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” We must ever be reminded what God said in Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” If we must see evidence from God, then we have little faith in God and are wavering. God knows, He knows what you have need of before you ever ask, He knows what it takes to make all things work together in your life before you ever ask. God knows what is good for you and what is bad for you before you ever ask. God knows every detail about you and what will happen, not only today or tomorrow or the next day, but every day of your life. Paul wrote in Php. 4:19 “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” The question is not can He, but do we have enough faith to believe He can, we better have! We all know that putting things in God’s hands and not worrying about them are not easy, but if our faith is strong enough in God then it is not. If you want a measuring stick to measure your faith it is how much faith do you have in God’s ability without any doubt. This is very important for believers, because God said we must have that faith and when we do, “…he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” Please listen very close to 2 Peter 1:3-7 “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.”
“…for he that cometh to God must believe that he is…”
