Dealing with Unbelief
Hebrews 3:12
Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
Lack of faith is what is know as unbelief. Faith is the key thing that makes us receive anything we need from God. Neither can we please God with our lack of faith which is unbelief.
“But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
Our major gift of salvation is only received by believing in the finished work of Jesus Christ at the cross. This means that the difference between the believers and the non believers is only their faith.
The main reason that people will perish in the lake of fire after judgement is not that their sins were not paid for at the cross but because of their lack of faith in the work of Jesus Christ. Their unbelief while here on earth will cost them their entire lives.
The writer of the book of Hebrew is warning the believers to beware lest there will be anyone with an evil heart of unbelief who will depart from the living God.
Our belief in God brings us to a point of rest. We stop being controlled by fear or anxiety but rest our hope in the only source of our rest who is God.
God had a good plan of rescuing the nation of Israel from slavery in Egypt and bringing them to the promised land to give them rest but unfortunately, they didn’t receive that rest because of unbelief.
“So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”
But the good news is that the Bible promises that there is still a promise of entering rest for we living in this generation.
“There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.”
How can we deal with unbelief especially towards God and His promises?
Hearing the word of God.
The Bible says that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17). It is only through us reading and meditating upon the word of God that our faith in God will grow.
The word of God will clearly reveal to us who God is and make us rely on His promises. In doing that we will be building our faith and dealing with unbelief.
2. Spending our time in prayer.
Prayer is communicating with God. The more we take our time in prayer we will be drawing closer to God and having a good relationship with Him.
God will, in turn, draw Himself to us and reveal Himself to us and therefore our faith in Him will grow and we will have no problem trusting Him in everything we need.
Prayer:
Lord we thank you for revealing yourself to us through your word. We trust that your word will make us believe in you and drive away unbelief.
Help us to keep on trusting us even when there is no physical evidence of what we are trusting you for. Lord we know that you don’t want us to walk by sight but by faith. We pray that we will endeavor put our trust in you. In Jesus name we pray.
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