The Best Job Ever

I want to have a quick conversation with you about an infinite subject. Not so much a conversation as it will be a monologue, but feel free to let it marinate in your mind and add your own spices as you do.

This scripture is the basis for this discussion...

"For in the Gospel, a righteousness that God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith [disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith]. As it is written The man who through faith is just and upright shall live by faith." -Romans 1:17

This is a proverbial piece of word steak. I read it, re-read it, re-read it again, wrote it on my chalkboard, read it, read it outloud and repeated that process until I realized that the best way to go about digestion is to talk it out. So let me be your proverbial (there's an addiction to the word "proverbial"-I realize that) mother and cut the steak for you...

Bite 1: So in the Word, God "ascribes" a righteousness--Ascribe: attribute to a person--that springs from simply having faith.

Bite 2: If we are a Christian then we automatically have faith-faith that God is God, faith that He sent His Son to die for our sins, and so on and so forth. Therefore if we have faith it leads to more faith and as a bonus package "a righteousness that God ascribes is revealed."

Now, let me introduce a new flavor....
Romans 15:13
"May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing (through the experience of your faith) that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing bubbling over with hope."

Let's get this straight. Having faith:
1. Pleases God- and really we could stop there because that's reason alone.
2. Ascribes to us a special righteousness
3. Arouses MORE faith
4. Fills us (according to Romans 15:13) with all joy and peace
5. Causes us to overflow, bubble over with hope

That is so inspiring. Why wouldn't you want to have faith if it produces all of that?!
Each reason above BY ITSELF would be reason enough to have faith, yet we get the added benefit of all of them. BEST INFO-MERCIAL EVER right there.

In fact, I was just thinking that if selling faith was a job, it would be the best sales job ever, but isn't that what we're called to do?*

*Dramatic ending!!!