27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. [simple_tooltip content=’19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,
30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.’](Romans 3:19-31)[/simple_tooltip]
Paul speaks here of “the law of faith.” Faith is a law. Just as there are laws in the physical world, there are laws in the spiritual realm also. Failure to understand this is at the heart of many Christians’ frustrations. They don’t understand why God doesn’t do something to end their pitiful situation or that there are laws they must learn to obey.
A person who walks off a ten-story building shouldn’t be upset with God when they fall. The law of gravity, which God created, can hurt or kill them if they don’t respect that law and operate accordingly. Gravity-caused is not personal on God’s part. The law of gravity is a constant God will not cancel for our convenience. If He were to stop gravity so the person walking off the ten-story building wouldn’t get hurt, there would be untold other deaths from car and train wrecks. That’s what makes gravity a law. It’s constant and universal.
Likewise, there are laws God has to honor. He loves us and wants to answer our prayers, but He will not violate His laws to do it. There is a law of sowing and reaping in the physical world. The farmer who doesn’t sow shouldn’t be upset with God when the crop he prayed for doesn’t grow. He didn’t cooperate with the laws God established. In the same way, many Christians don’t cooperate with God’s laws for prosperity, healing, success, and joy; yet they can’t understand why they aren’t reaping positive results.
Today make it a priority to begin to learn and then operate according to God’s spiritual laws. Then you will enjoy the blessings God wants you to have.
