Friends, at the beginning of my Christian experience, while I was attending my first camp meeting that I was taking notes of studies on “RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH.” It was then I heard, for the first time, Romans 1:17 being read: “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” I remember trying to make sense of it, but I was busy taking notes since every word I was hearing was new to me.

When later reviewing my notes, I stumbled upon the same verse again, but I still couldn’t understand the depth of Paul’s words to the Romans—and my notes didn’t help a lot, either. Only years later, when reading E.J. Waggoner’s explanation on the book of Romans, did I get to understand that the explanation is found in the same letter to the Romans, where the apostle Paul says that “God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith” (Romans 12:3) .

Those two Bible verses together helped me understand that at birth, we are blessed with a measure of faith, which helps us believe and trust our parents. Once we prove that our parents were right in little things, we trust them in greater things.

That is what it means that the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. As you exercise your little faith in your PERFECT DADDY who never disappoints you, your faith grows into believing that even greater things are possible. This is what we call BUILDING BEAUTIFUL FAITH.

—Adrian Finaru