GENESIS 22:9-12
This was the triumph of both Abraham and Isaac. Faith was now a proven fact. God
said, "Now I know that thou fearest God" (Gen. 22:12). Abraham had passed the
supreme test, and God's voice broke into the awful silence and said, "Now I know."
Faith is always proven by action. In his epistle James said, "Was not Abraham our father
justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how
faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?" (2:21-22).

Along with these statements, Romans 4:2-3 needs to be taken into consideration: "For if
Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what
saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for
righteousness."
It is common to hear people say, "You must have faith." But faith itself is as rare as a
true gem. The kind of faith that causes a man to launch out into the deep from the shore
of present circumstances is practically missing.
Where is our faith today? Perhaps you ask, What is faith? When taken in its most basic
meaning, faith is believing what God says and then acting upon it. If we do not act upon
what God says, this is an evidence that we really do not believe.
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone (James 2:17).

Theodore Epp
www.backtothebible.in