DCLM Daily Manna 2025: DCLM Daily Manna 21 July 2025: Partnership By Faith
Text: Hebrews 11:1-6 (KJV)
1-2 The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see. The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.
3 By faith, we see the world called into existence by God’s word, what we see created by what we don’t see.
4 By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That’s what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.
5-6 By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. “They looked all over and couldn’t find him because God had taken him.” We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken “he pleased God.” It’s impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.
KEY VERSE: (Hebrews 11:6) But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
In his memoir, Everything Sad Is Untrue, Daniel Nayeri recounts the gripping story of why his mother became a Christian. She grew up in a devout and prestigious Muslim family. She was a doctor and had wealth and esteem. Eventually, she would forsake all of that to follow Jesus. She was forced to flee for her life from Iran, eventually settling in the U.S. as a refugee. When people ask her why, she looks them in the eye, hoping they will hear her, and she says, “Because it’s true.” Why else would she believe it? It is true and more valuable than $7 million in gold coins, thousands of acres of Persian countryside, and ten years of education to get a medical degree, all your family, and a home. And maybe even your life. My mom wouldn’t have made the trade otherwise.
Man enters into a partnership with God by faith. He who fully rests his trust and confidence in God’s word is graciously welcomed into His fellowship. The foundation of faith is the bedrock of God’s word. All creations, visible and invisible, are brought into being by the word of God.
In today’s passage, we learn that he who seeks to please God must believe who God says He is and what He promises He would do. Abel must have taken pains to understand that God’s accepted offering must come through the blood of an animal since his parents’ nakedness was covered with ‘coats of skin.’ His offering pleased the Lord, while Cain’s offering taken from the fruit of the ground was an expression of unbelief. Faith in the blood of Christ is God’s only acceptable sacrifice that can remit man’s sins. Abel’s faith in the blood offering justified him before God. Enoch is said to have walked with God and not died because God translated him. He had a memorable testimony ‘that he pleased God.’
Like the story of the woman in our introduction, the sinner can begin a life of faith by putting his trust in the shed blood of the Lamb of God, who had taken away the world’s sins. The saint must seek to walk with God with a pure heart and live in faithful readiness for the coming of the Lord. You can live the God-pleasing life of faith if you, by faith, accept His gracious offer of salvation for your soul.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Faith in Christ’s atoning blood builds partnership with God.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 28-29
Daily Manna 21 July 2025
