“According to Your Faith Let It Be to You.”

All God’s words—the words of life—are true and exact. Therefore one ought to believe them exactly as they are written. The Word will be fulfilled exactly if you have a living and personal faith in it. It will be as you believe; it will happen precisely as you believe it.

It cannot happen any other way. You cannot attain to what the Word says in any other way.

For example: “Our old man was crucified with Him [Christ] . . . .” Rom. 6:6. “You have put off the old man with his deeds . . . .” Col. 3:9. “But now you must also put off all these . . . .”—all conscious sin. Col. 3:8; Gal. 5:19-21; Rom. 6:4, 12.

Here, as everywhere else, Jesus’ word applies: “According to your faith let it be to you.” If you do not believe these words, they cannot be fulfilled in your life, irrespective of how much you want it to be fulfilled and how much you pray for it. But it will happen if you really believe it.

It is, of course, very difficult to believe something so unspeakably great. For this very reason one ought to fight in deadly earnest to lay hold of a living faith in such glorious, true words! Matt. 11:12.

Unfortunately, for most people it is normal to doubt something that is so unspeakably great. What such people actually believe is that something like that will never come to pass. This is precisely why the negative connotation of this word is fulfilled. You can never love God in truth and keep His commandment in that way!

“According to your faith let it be to you” is always fulfilled in every case—whether you are victorious or whether you sin. How indescribably foolish it is to doubt God’s true words. Heb. 11:6.