20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.
Being a very logical numbers kind of guy, too often I fall into the trap of analyzing things constrained by the box of human and worldly laws I know to be true. God is not constrained by any physical laws we humans may have discovered---he created them. So why would I ever doubt his ability to create change, in any circumstance or set of facts.
This includes sharing my faith with someone that I would have prejudged to never be open to hearing God's message and believe My opinion is irrelevant, God can do all things let him use me when I feel the nudge--don't just sit on my hands.
ok--not where I thought I was going when I started typing, not even sure it makes sense with this chapter but its what came out.
knut
sometimes what come out, is what is meant to get in.
ReplyDeleteI had to go back and read this chapter in the message. It helped.
But the story we’re given is a God-story, not an Abraham-story. What we read in Scripture is, “Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own.”
This passage is spot on to what we've been talking about in our couples small group, and to what you wrote yesterday. We don't need to try to control it. We need to enter into what God is doing, and things will work out for us. Maybe not according to the plan we have in our head, but in the end it will be a better outcome for us than we could ever have dreamed.
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