Tuesday, August 02, 2011

That Doesn't Matter

Romans 4:19 KJV
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

Abraham considered not his body.
When determining whether he would obey the Lord or not
His body
• Its limitations and its strengths
• Its age or its youth
• Its experience
• Its education
• Its natural abilities
None of them were considered.

God had given a commandment and the only consideration was whether he had understood the command or not.

When choosing to believe God's promise or not
His body was not part of the consideration, and in Abraham's case, neither was the body of his wife who played into the promises God made to him.
• Medical science might have written it off as impossibility
• Human history would seen it as unprecedented
But these things did not matter; the only real consideration was whether this was the promise of God or not.

Abraham believed God and moved forward in faith because he was fully persuaded that what God had promised He was able also to perform.

And that, with no consideration of his body.

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