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Yesterday, Paul described the idea of “justification” ... how God can maintain His righteousness and His justice while offering us a way to restore the relationship we broke with Him. Some of the readers, Paul was writing to in Rome, were Jewish and would have had a hard time accepting this idea of being made right with God through faith. They had been taught all their life that you were made right be keeping the laws God had given to them through Moses. So, Paul referred to the story of a man they would greatly respect (Abraham) to explain that God has always “counted” people as right with Him through their faith.


Romans 4
1 Abraham was, humanly speaking, the founder of our Jewish nation. What did he discover about being made right with God?
2 If his good deeds had made him acceptable to God, he would have had something to boast about. But that was not God’s way.
3 For the Scriptures tell us, “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.”
4 When people work, their wages are not a gift, but something they have earned.
5 But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners.


Discover. The subject of Paul’s letter hasn’t changed much from chapter three to chapter four; but for me, his use of Abraham’s story reminded me of something important in my journey. I love the question, “What did he discover about ... God?” That is the heart of this blog and why being in God’s Word learning God’s Story is so important to me. I am constantly discovering new things about God or being reminded of what others discovered. Thanks for being a part of this Journey with me.