Confirming the covenant by looking at stars too numerous to
count is hardly proof of the promise. But that is the way it has been with
Abraham and God. In the same way God’s “trust me” was enough for Abraham to
leave his people and his father’s household for a promised land he had never
seen, so too God’s “trust me” is enough for Abraham to believe what appears
less likely with each passing year. Abraham’s believing “trust me” despite the
delay in God making good on the promise is reckoned as righteousness, which is
a way of saying the Lord and Abraham are BFF because friendship is a
relationship of trust. So too for we who have not seen and yet believe; who
following the Lord anticipate the promise of eternal life in a land beyond
without having been there; who trust that despite the difficulties of each day
prayers offered are heard and God’s grace and mercy and love is as boundless as
the stars that cannot be counted. The word to Abraham is the word to us. Trust
me.
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