Believe The Blessing

Romans 4:16-17
Receiving God’s blessing
depends entirely on faith
[confident trust in the unseen God],
in order that it may be given
as a free gift to all.
Therefore, believe in the God
who brings the dead back to life
and who creates new things
out of nothing.

COMMENTARY
“We call Abraham ‘father’ not because
he got God’s attention by living like a saint,
but because God made something
out of Abraham when he was a nobody.
Abraham was first named ‘father’
and then became a father
because he dared to trust God
to do what only God could do:
raise the dead to life.
With a word,
God made something
out of nothing.
When everything was hopeless,
Abraham believed anyway.
He decided to live,
not on the basis
of what he saw he couldn’t do,
but on the basis
of what God said He would do.”
~Eugene Peterson