What Did Abram Believe?

NOW what did God ask Abram to believe? He asked him to believe what He had said concerning a promised son. But more than that, God asked him to believe in a long-promised son, a long-delayed son, a miraculously born, a supernaturally given son. God asked Abram to believe the humanly impossible, the naturally unreasonable and the miraculously supernatural. When God fulfilled this promise to Abram he was one hundred years old, and his wife, Sarah, was ninety. They had both long since passed the time of life that they, in the course of nature, could expect to become parents of a child. Abram’s body was “dead,” we are told, as far as procreation was concerned. Sarah had long since passed the time of life for childbearing, and was maternally dead. It would, therefore, take a miracle to give them a child. It would have to be supernatural.

Adapted and modified excerpts from Studies in the Life of Abraham by M. R. De Haan (1891-1964)
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