Believe Anyway

Long before Abraham saw the fruit of the promise, he believed God anyway. Though everything in his life seemed to indicate otherwise, he lived his life, every day, not looking at the impossibility of the promise but in the possibility of God.

Roman’s 4:17-18 says that, “When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do.”

I am sure that there were times that Abraham barely believed. I am sure there were days that he was only holding on to a bare thread of hope but he didn’t let go.
He held on to that thread of hope. Abraham was first named ‘father’ and then became a father because he dared to trust God. He trusted to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life and with a word make something out of nothing.

My friend, today is a day to dare to trust God. You may not see how God is going to fulfill His Word, but He will. No matter how impossible the situation seems to you, you can believe that God can do something in it anyway.

My prayer for you is that like Abraham you will decide to live today not based on what you can’t do but on what God can do through you.

Hold on, my friend, you may only have a thread of hope, but in Christ, that thread is stronger than what you face and will hold against that which you fear.