Trusting God

Toward a New Creation
Judgment and Salvation

Assurances and Joy for the Faithful

Hebrews 11:7-12The Message (MSG)

⁷ By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn’t see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.
^8-10 By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God’s call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.
^11-12 By faith, barren Sarah was able to become pregnant, old woman as she was at the time, because she believed the One who made a promise would do what he said. That’s how it happened that from one man’s dead and shriveled loins there are now people numbering into the millions.

For Reflection

"You want me to build a what?"

God often asks us to do the impossible, the unexpected and the unreasonable.  Are you prepared to be obedient when God calls even if you cannot understand the reason or cannot determine a satisfactory outcome?  Abraham and Sarah did! 

Trust in God and obedience to God's call results in holy justice.  The evil of the unbelieving world perpetuates self-determination vengeance, hate and death.  Obedience to God perpetuates love, forgiveness and compassion.  Which do you prefer?

Pray

Pray for the improbable.  Pray for the impossible. Pray for the end of cultures of selfishness, hate and vengeance.  Pray for the realization of the Kingdom of God.