For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” (Romans 1:16-17)

The Gospel is the good news that though we were justly condemned by our own sin and rightly under the wrath of the righteous God, Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God, came to this earth, born of the virgin Mary, to live the life we failed to live and die the death we should have died. In His death on the cross He bore our sins, enduring God’s wrath on our behalf that we might be forgiven and justified. And being found in Him we are clothed by His righteousness, reconciled to our heavenly Father.

This Gospel reveals how a sinful man may be endued with God’s righteousness – by faith alone.

The Christian life is “from faith.” The sinner is justified before God through faith alone in the Son of God. This was true of Abraham and it is true of us. (Romans 4:1-8)

The Christian life is also “to faith.” The just live by faith. The source of the Christian’s present life is faith in Jesus.

Faith is the whole of the Christian life. Through it we are saved, by it we live and in it all of our eternal hopes rest.

If we are willing to trust God for eternity, are we not willing to trust Him for the present?