WHY WOULD GOD CARE MORE ABOUT WHAT WE BELIEVE THAN HOW WE LIVE FOR GOD?

[seed_time_harvest]

Thank you for your thoughtful replies.

Althogh GOD cares about what we believe and how we live for HIM,my best way of expressing this In a humanistic way Is to say GOD cares more about what we believe first over how we serve HIM because once GOD saves you then we are HIS workmanship created In CHRIST unto good works so then If we believe then GOD does the rest.

 

[Nehemiah6]

Thank you for your thoughtful replies.

Using the term "God cares about" does not help, since God is not a man, and that term is more applicable to human beings. But believing on the Lord Jesus Christ must result in a life that is surrendered to Him, so God "cares about" both your faith as well as your life in Christ.

Christians are servants of God, and stewards of the resources and gifts that He has given us. So God has a specific job for you on this earth. We are saved "unto good works", but good works are not the only thing that God wants to see. Your worship should precede your works. In essence, God "cares about" everything that happens within you and within your life, how you relate to Him and to others, and how you are a witness for Christ.

We are to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, which means a progressive transformation into the likeness of Christ (your total sanctification). His ultimate objective is your perfection -- spirit, soul, and body (1 Thess 5:23): And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Notice that God gives priority to the spirit over the soul, and the soul over the body.

 

[Grandpa]

What a person believes directly affects the way they live.

If you believe you can do it and you don't need help then that is the way you will live.

If you believe you need the Lord Jesus Christ for all of your blessings then of course you will be asking Him all the time to rain down those blessings upon you and your family and your loved ones and those who need Him.

Faith is what makes the world go around. Some people say money. But if it weren't for peoples faith in that currency the money would be meaningless.

Faith sculpts you into the person you are growing into. It may look a little rough and a little funny right now but it will come together...

 

[trofimus]

Thank you for your thoughtful replies.

Because you live for God based upon what you believe about Him.

 

[eternally-gratefull]

God can make a light turn on for you- like He did for Saul/Paul who was well-learned, in college so-to-speak- who thought he knew it all until he saw the light, on the road to Damascus, and discovered that he had been wrong. God chooses whom to give grace to, and the ones He chooses are those who obey Him. Our obedience does not earn it, cause it can’t- that’s why it’s still a gift. I can’t by a mansion with a leaf, but if a rich man gives mansions to those with leaves- that’s his prerogative, but leaves still don’t earn mansions.

This is taken wrong

Yes, The people who obey are those who God chose, Because they have living faith, and living faith does. it does not sit idle.

Jesus said he went to make a mansion for us, because we are saved, He made the payment, He fulfilled the requirement, and he send us the HS as a seal of that inheritance we are given based on our faith in him.

we do not get a mansion because we have leaves. we have nothing to give God that would cause him to say yes you have earned this house.

 

[LaurieB]

WHY WOULD GOD CARE MORE ABOUT WHAT WE BELIEVE THAN HOW WE LIVE FOR GOD?


The question makes the presumption that He does CARE MORE ABOUT WHAT WE BELIEVE THAN HOW WE LIVE FOR GOD.
I am not persuaded that the presumption is valid.

Yes, the question was worded poorly. I do believe that both faith and, then, how we live our lives is extremely important. You can call it "works" or you can call it fruit. It does not matter. Thank you for pointing this out to me.

 

[MarcR]

Originally Posted by LaurieB

Thank you for your thoughtful replies.


WHY WOULD GOD CARE MORE ABOUT WHAT WE BELIEVE THAN HOW WE LIVE FOR GOD?


The question makes the presumption that He does CARE MORE ABOUT WHAT WE BELIEVE THAN HOW WE LIVE FOR GOD.


I am not persuaded that the presumption is valid.


When I posted the above I was under pressure to leave for an appointment.


The NT, especially the book of James, makes frequent statements on the importance of fruit in a believer's life.

This is NOT about faith vs works!!! A peach tree doesn't think about, work at or decide about bearing peaches. It is the peach tree's nature to produce peaches.

Fruit is not a basis on which we are to judge one another; except that if a person who calls himself/herself a believer seems unfruitful we should try to lead them to Jesus as if they were unsaved; without being judgemental toward them.

Fruit is NOT something a believer decides to bear! Phil 2:13
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
KJV


Of course God cannot produce fruit in us unless or until our belief recognizes what He has done for us, and our need for it; and we act on that recognition by accepting His Salvation and His Lordship..