law requires no faith

Thursday: But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out]. (Hebrews 11:6 AMP)

Without faith, it's impossible to please The Father.  While listening to an anointed grace preacher last night (Pastor Marco Bravo of New Creation Church San Antonio), a new revelation popped out at me.  He said, "The Law doesn't require faith."

I had never thought of it in that light before, but it's true.  If I want to try to adhere to a checklist of rights and wrongs in order to be righteous, then where is there a need for faith?  Each day, I can go through my checklist and see whether or not I measured up.  To be honest, I have tried to walk out my "faith" this way most of my Christian life.  

Living this way is completely denying our need for Jesus and trying to do what the Scribes and Pharisees did generations before: prove that we can live holy in our own strength.  New flash... WE CAN'T!!!  Oh, how this must hurt the heart of The Father when we act as if we do not continually need His Son, Jesus.

The very essence of faith is anchored in knowing that in our own human effort, we are destitute.  We need a savior.  We need a rescuer.  We cannot be pleasing to God without daily and complete dependence on and faith in Jesus.  Today, let's live with total faith in the finished work Jesus has performed and not try to perform our way through life.