I must admit I too have had issues with trusting in God. Not that I thought he couldn’t do it for me, but I just didn’t think I was worthy for such blessings. I used to make little rough drafts in my mind on how God would do it. And when things don’t seem to happen, I got worn out, I gave up and forget about it. But the story of Abraham is so amazing to me. How, this man believed and was so patient in his wait and in the end, it was done to him as the Lord had promised.
Gen13 14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.” 18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord - TRUST
Gen13 14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.” 18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord - TRUST
Gen 18 10 Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. 11 Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. 12 So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
Gen 21 Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. 2 Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. 4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.6 Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” 7 And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.” WAIT
Reading above the Lord makes a promise to Abraham to give him land and a great offspring. Abraham was already old and his wife wasn’t expecting a baby either, but watch what he does; Abraham builds an altar for the Lord. Abraham responds to God’s promise with faith and patience, despite the fact that the odds were against.
I too so want to be counted as righteousness by God, but as long as I keep seeking verification to everything that God tells me or even doing as Sarah did with Hagar (doing things her way) , I am far from it. I am praying for a trusting and patient heart.
Be blessed beyond!
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