Trusting in this leads us to allegiance to God. Now our lives revolve around our new lord, king, shepherd, and benefactor. We stop searching for others, because we have trusted in what Christ has done for us. Like Belen, we don’t bake bread for any other god. Like Belen, every morning we should line up at our patron’s door to receive his benefaction and to ask what he might require of us this day. We do not do this to try to earn favor. We do this because we trust we have already been given favor in Christ. We are part of his household. Pistis, our trust in what God has done, naturally means
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