The Credit Crisis

 The Credit Crisis

How’s your credit score?

In this economy, only those with excellent credit are getting the loans.

But what about your credit score with God?

He requires a perfect score.

Today’s devotional tells you how you can get a perfect credit score.

There is a Credit Crisis facing the whole world

but it has nothing to do with money.

This Credit Crisis is far greater

then the world’s financial concerns.

The world debt is growing

and governments

are printing more money

in an attempt to bail us out.

But the debt keeps growing!

In the same way,

the world is in another Credit Crisis.

The debt of this crisis is increasing.

The debt is coming from Sin.

And this debt kills!

“The wages of sin is death”

Romans 6:23

We keep printing more and more laws

to deal with it;

and more and more books

to help us accept it.

But the debt keeps growing. 

The person in God’s economy

who is out of this debt is righteous.

They are in right standing

when it comes to giving an account

to the Chief Bank Officer God.

God does not take excuses for payment,

and you can’t work it off;

the debt must be paid before you die.

There is only one way to get credit

for the debt of sin.

Abram shows us how it is done.

Genesis 15:6 NIV

“Abram believed the LORD,

and he credited it to him

as righteousness.”   

Believing God has always been,

and always will be,

the terms at God’s bank

to receive righteousness.

This was the theme of Abram’s life.

Because he believed God

and acted on what

God revealed to him,

God canceled the debt

and Abram became a friend

of the Banker “God.”

How is your friendship with the Banker?

Are you debt free?

Scripture Reading

Genesis 15:6 NIV

6 Abram believed the LORD,

and he credited it to him as righteousness.    

Romans 4:1-5 AMP

4:1[BUT] IF so, what shall we say about Abraham,

our forefather humanly speaking — [what did he] find out?

 [How does this affect his position, and what was gained by him?] 

2 For if Abraham was justified ( established as just by acquittal from guilt)

by good works [that he did, then] he has grounds for boasting.

But not before God!

3 For what does the Scripture say?

Abraham believed in (trusted in) God,

and it was credited to his account as righteousness

(right living and right standing with God).

[Genesis 15:6] 

4 Now to a laborer, his wages are not counted as a favor or a gift,

but as an obligation (something owed to him).

5 But to one who, not working [by the Law],

trusts (believes fully) in Him Who justifies the ungodly,

his faith is credited to him as righteousness

(the standing acceptable to God).

Romans 4:18-25 AMP

18[For Abraham, human reason for] hope being gone,

hoped in faith that he should become the father of many nations,

as he had been promised,

So [numberless] shall your descendants be.

[Genesis 15:5] 

19 He did not weaken in faith

when he considered the [utter] impotence of his own body,

which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old,

or [when he considered] the barrenness of Sarah's [deadened] womb.

[Genesis 17:17; 18:11] 

20 No unbelief or distrust made him waver (doubtingly question)

concerning the promise of God,

but he grew strong and was empowered by faith

as he gave praise and glory to God,

21 Fully satisfied and assured that God

was able and mighty to keep His word

and to do what He had promised.

22 That is why his faith was credited to him

as righteousness (right standing with God).

23 But [the words], It was credited to him,

were written not for his sake alone,

24 But [they were written] for our sakes too.

[Righteousness, standing acceptable to God]

will be granted and credited to us also who believe in

(trust in, adhere to, and rely on) God,

Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

25 Who was betrayed and put to death

because of our misdeeds

and was raised to secure our justification (our acquittal),

[making our account balance and absolving us from all guilt before God].

Galatians 3:6-7 AMP

6 Thus Abraham believed in and adhered to and trusted in and relied on God,

and it was reckoned and placed to his account and credited as righteousness

(as conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action).

[Genesis 15:6] 

7 Know and understand that it is [really] the people

[who live] by faith who are [the true] sons of Abraham.

James 2:21-24 AMP

21 Was not our forefather Abraham [shown to be]

justified (made acceptable to God) by [his] works

when he brought to the altar as an offering his [own] son Isaac?

[Genesis 22:1-14] 

22 You see that [his] faith was cooperating with his works,

and [his] faith was completed and reached its supreme expression

[when he implemented it] by [good] works.

23 And [so] the Scripture was fulfilled that says,

Abraham believed in

(adhered to, trusted in, and relied on) God,

and this was accounted to him as righteousness

(as conformity to God's will in thought and deed),

and he was called God's friend.

[Genesis 15:6; 2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8] 

24 You see that a man is justified

(pronounced righteous before God)

through what he does and not alone through faith

[through works of obedience as well as by what he believes].