READ Romans 4 COMMENTARY: : 3        For what says the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. (3049 “counted” [logizomai] means to take an inventory, esteem, impute, lay, number, reason, reckon, suppose or to pass to one’s account.) DEVOTION:  Is “trust" a work? Does “trust” or “belief” require us to work? It is an attitude that we have to have in order for God to impute righteousness on us. Abraham “trusted” or “believed” the promise that God gave him. God had promised that through him all the nations of the earth would be blessed. We now know that the blessing was the coming of Jesus Christ to shed HIS blood for the remission of sins for both the Jews and the Gentiles. However, at the time Abraham was an hundred years old and his wife was…