"So that the [ones] out of faith are blessed with the faithful [one], Abraham."
-Let us be perfectly clear: while all people here below, believers and unbelievers alike, share in an experience of the goodness of God (His sun rises and rain falls on both the righteous and the unrighteous - Matthew 5.45), His greatest blessings, the privilege to enter in to an eternal experience of His glorious goodness, being welcomed in to His forever family, is reserved for those who are "out of faith". The one who would come to God, who would be pleasing enough to be welcomed into His presence, must have faith, must trust, must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who in faith do seek Him. In fact, without faith it is simply impossible to please Him at all, much less enter in to His presence, this One in Whose presence is fulness of joy and in Whose right hand are pleasures forever. If you want to experience the good stuff, THE Good stuff, the best that life has to offer, you gotta have faith. Righteousness, being totally right in the eyes of your Maker, comes only by faith, by trusting in the One Who provided the one and only Way to be made right. Jesus.
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