Abraham, The Father Of Faith
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ . . .
Ephesians 1:3
Today's Bible Reading: Genesis 12:1-9.
His father was a moon-worshipper in Ur of the Chaldeans. But God began to speak and Abraham listened. He left his home, country and his people to obey God’s call to “go to the land I will show you” (v 1). His wife was barren and old, but God promised Abraham a son. “He believed the Lord,” Scripture tells us, “and he credited it to him as righteousness” and he became known as “the friend of God” (Isaiah 41:8).
Abraham was a flawed man who followed a perfect God. What changed him was a constant belief that this God who spoke to him would keep His wonderful promises. And God did.
Abraham showed his love for God through his faith accompanied by obedience, and is
rightly called “the father of faith,” for he blazed the trail for us. You and I walk that same trail of faith today.
The beautiful thing is that those who have accepted the Lord Jesus as their Lord and Saviour are already more than friends of God. They are adopted into the family of God and are children of God: In Ephesians 1:3-5 the Bible says: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.
Prayer
Great God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Father of the Lord Jesus Christ and through Christ, my Father too. Thank You that I have been adopted into Your family through Your dear Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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