Faith like Abraham

I got an email right now and in the body, it said this:

-I have been studying the story of Abram and Sarai this week. This is a story with which many of us are familiar. God makes many promises to Abram….promises that seem impossible to keep (a man fathering at child when he is 100 years old…..really?) But Abram is a man of incredible faith. He walks out in faith to a foreign land….as the Lord had told him. He waited and waited for a child….a child the Lord had promised would be born. And after waiting so long for this child to be born, he was willing to sacrifice his only son, Isaac….as the Lord asked him. Through all of this, Abram was faithful and God fulfilled His promises to Abram. Paul has this to say about Abraham in the book of Romans: Romans 4:20: “Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised.”-

In Hebrews 4:12, it says this, "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." This verse in Romans did that to me. Looking back onto the life of Abraham and how God did bring him into a foreign land, made these promises and then came through with them when, at times, it did not look like He would. This really got me thinking about my own life. How God brought me into a foreign land. He brought me here to Albania, and looking back, it was only because of Him that I am here. He has always made promised to me, through the Bible, and will always keep them. But there is a way that I am nothing like Abraham. After God came through in giving Abraham a son, Abraham was willing to sacrifice Him. Looking into my own life, there are so many things that I am not willing to sacrifice. Why? Why can't I believe that God's way is better and just gives these things up in my life that are hindering my walk with God? If you could pray for me. Pray that I can find sufficiency in the person of Christ, knowing what I have IN Him and then appropriating that to my own life. I have EVERYTHING in Him! But I still think I need the things of this world. Pray that my faith cannot be MY faith but His faith. Pray that I may truly believe that His ways are better than mine.

There have not been a lot of times when a verse has brought me to tears, but tonight was one of them. I now truly believe that verse in Hebrews and have personally experienced it. "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort." 2 Corinthians 1:3