Think

DEVOTION
ROMANS
THINK

Rom 10:1-4
10:1 Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3 Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4 Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. NIV

Ah, the rub, to be religious and do all the right things. Attending to all the Godly manners, even to the point of ministry to others and still missing the mark. Not to have the knowledge seems a strange thing. I hear people talk about Jesus being a heart issue. How He lives in my heart, and how He changes my heart, creating within me a new heart. That is all true, and I can testify to the truth of it within myself. But here I also see it is a mind issue, to know mentally the truth about God. To have the knowledge of God within my mind is a real truth. The Israelites did the right things, but it was not based on knowledge, on really knowing God, having the truth of God. This I must keep in the forefront of my being. Experiencing God emotionally, spiritually and even physically thru healings is great and nothing to diminish at all, in fact, shout it from the roof tops. But to have the knowledge about the truth of God is best. To know I have not one ounce of righteousness within myself and have absolutely no ability or authority to stand in the presence of God is essential. This is knowledge, true, complete, absolute, pure knowledge. To attempt anything with my own good deeds, to establish myself in any way as a righteous person, would be ignoring the one and true form of knowledge. Christ is my righteousness, and it is by faith and faith alone that He becomes this for me. Yes, it is a thinking man’s faith.