"And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child."
Acts 7:2-5
This is a good summary that helps us understand the faith that Abraham had to believe in God's promises even when there was no external evidence. Sometimes we face similar things. God offers us promises of the future to give us hope in the present, but some of that is difficult to believe... just like Abraham was promised posterity as the stars in the heaven when he had no children, and promised empires worth of lands, when he didn't own any land at all. Our gifts from God are rarely pre-assembled, and they require some effort to piece together, but as unlikely as they may seem, God always keeps his promises and fulfils his word.
Today, let's work on trusting God and working for the future that he guarantees is possible, as impossible as it might seem to us right now.
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