It is scary to get excited about the promise when you can't see how it will come to pass; when it is not just seemingly impossible but out-right crazy. When all circumstances around you claim it can't happen, when nature itself, in a way, denies you the right...
I was musing on the thought above, as I waited for the train, when God spoke to me: "That's what faith is: 'The substance of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE of things NOT SEEN.'"
He said: "Remember Abraham: 'who is the father of us all... in the presence of Him whom he believed. God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who CONTRARY to HOPE BELIEVED, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, 'so shall your descendants be.' And NOT being WEAK in FAITH, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthen in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore 'it was accounted to him for righteousness.'"
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