Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Intentional Faith


If we spend too much time looking at our circumstances and culture, it can be disheartening. If you are not careful your faith will become weak. We must intentionally be focused on the things of God and not this world.We need to rely on God's power and promises.

Abraham was one who relied on God’s promises. "
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.  By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.  For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.  And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth." - Hebrews 11:8-13

A promise was given to Abraham and yet we do not find that God gave any other information whatsoever. God did not identify the country nor tell Abraham where he was to go. Neither did God tell Abraham when his wife (Sarah) would bear the seed (the male child) from whom the promised nation would be born.

God made a simple promise, and all Abraham had to go on was that simple promise, that is, the sheer Word of God. Only one condition was attached to the promise. Abraham had to have faith and believe God. So  should we. Amen?