Wait on the Lord (May 10, 2013)

 

 

Rom 4:19-21 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about an hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waiver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. 

Piggy-backing off of the last post (Haste), this scripture gives insight into the next step that Abraham and Sarah took after trying in their flesh to make His promises come to pass - they learned to wait on the Lord.

To waiver means to separate, withdraw, hesitate or contend. The issue with Abraham wasn't whether he believed God would fulfill His promise, it was if he believed that God would fulfill His promise without the intervention of Abraham's flesh. But the process of learning to fully (purely) believe, strengthened Abraham and Sarah in more ways than one - the implication with this verse is that their bodies were also strengthened. At 100 years old it would have been physically impossible for them to have a child, but God did something miraculous in their bodies. The more they focused their eyes of faith on Him, the more strengthened (empowered) their bodies became to conceive and bear a child.

Php 1:6 And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you.