Abraham didn’t focus on his own impotence and say, “It’s hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child.” Nor did he survey Sarah’s decades of infertility and give up. He didn’t tiptoe around God’s promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what He had said. (Romans 4:19-21 The Message)
PROMISES
I like optical illusions. Like those fun pictures that look like the two squares are different sizes, but actually are the same.
My senses, while reliable enough to get by on, are actually not reliable enough to live well.
I see circumstances, current events, political upheaval, economic troubles, weather inconsistencies, the effects of age, illnesses, and I might think, “WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?”
But I actually do know what is going on. God is at work. And in this world, in the world in which Christians live, His promises are more reliable than our senses.
Abraham learned that the hard way… or the easy way! Sarah had a baby.
So when God’s promises do not seem present, remember that His Words are more real than your senses. His promises are true truth. Promises like: He always does what is good for His people, even when it does not seem like it. Promises like: He will never leave you or forsake you, even when it seems He has. Promises like: the home He’s prepared, even when we can not see it.
We are peculiar, He has promised.