Thoughts for another day
March 16, 2011
Today's verse: Romans 4:19. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
Rooted in God and having faith in Him, throws up many possibilities. Doors open which we think never existed. Light filters in even when we're enclosed in dark canopies of great thickness. Water becomes ice and vice versa when stability or thirst quenching are needed. Yes, faith in our awesome God, throws up many possibilities in life which when seen by the eyes of the world are non-existent and not possible. And God works the impossible when He brings into existence the things that don't exist.
But like I always say, the process of faith isn't very easy. Poor Abraham, how difficult it would've been to believe what God told him of descendents as numerous as stars in the night sky that too at a time when he was way beyond the hill as far as siring children was concerned. And Sarah too had gone well past the age of bearing children and would perhaps, if she had had children, attained even great-grand motherhood! But then, speaking of God's promises: they're rock-solid even if all around it's wobbly! So therefore, Abraham took God's Word for what it was worth and considered his literally impotent body as no hindrance as also Sarah's inability to menstruate and he dreamed of the day when he would be what God wanted him to be.
Faced with a dead end, many of us sink to the floor of despair and frustration. But those of us who stand at the wall in front of us, solid in faith, having the gumption to declare the wall as nothing can see the mighty hand of God in its full glory for remember, when faith is expectant, and God works in our lives, then He gets the glory. Thus are the walls shattered that dare impinge us and the paths straightened that lead us wayward. God works marvelously in our lives when we have nothing else to offer Him but faith, for let me tell you, there isn't a fragrance so enamoring before God as the essence of unflinching and unalloyed faith.
March 16, 2011
Today's verse: Romans 4:19. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
Rooted in God and having faith in Him, throws up many possibilities. Doors open which we think never existed. Light filters in even when we're enclosed in dark canopies of great thickness. Water becomes ice and vice versa when stability or thirst quenching are needed. Yes, faith in our awesome God, throws up many possibilities in life which when seen by the eyes of the world are non-existent and not possible. And God works the impossible when He brings into existence the things that don't exist.
But like I always say, the process of faith isn't very easy. Poor Abraham, how difficult it would've been to believe what God told him of descendents as numerous as stars in the night sky that too at a time when he was way beyond the hill as far as siring children was concerned. And Sarah too had gone well past the age of bearing children and would perhaps, if she had had children, attained even great-grand motherhood! But then, speaking of God's promises: they're rock-solid even if all around it's wobbly! So therefore, Abraham took God's Word for what it was worth and considered his literally impotent body as no hindrance as also Sarah's inability to menstruate and he dreamed of the day when he would be what God wanted him to be.
Faced with a dead end, many of us sink to the floor of despair and frustration. But those of us who stand at the wall in front of us, solid in faith, having the gumption to declare the wall as nothing can see the mighty hand of God in its full glory for remember, when faith is expectant, and God works in our lives, then He gets the glory. Thus are the walls shattered that dare impinge us and the paths straightened that lead us wayward. God works marvelously in our lives when we have nothing else to offer Him but faith, for let me tell you, there isn't a fragrance so enamoring before God as the essence of unflinching and unalloyed faith.
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