C.) The Method ... (Genesis 15)

the means God’s grace flows into our lives.

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. (Hebrews 11:8-10)

The Creation of Faith

God creates situations where we might gain more faith and so be able to safely incorporate more of His grace into our lives so that His goodness might reach more people. Faith is crucial to this process, not just the initial faith needed, but the pursuing faith.

God could easily have given Abraham a son or many of them. He only promised Abram many descendants. He had no children. Surely anyone around that heard of God’s promise to aging Abram would laugh and mock him. This was the challenge of his faith that was embedded in his name, ‘Abram,’ meaning ‘exalted father.’

If people asked the reason Abram lived in Canaan, he would tell them that this was where God would give him a multitude of descendants. Surely we can hear the difficulty he went through. Perhaps to make the difficulty a bit worse, we read of the promises below.