OCTOBER  12

WHAT ARE YOU CONSIDERING?

ROMANS 4:13-25


“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:” (Rom. 4:19)

Abraham’s faith wasn’t stronger than ours – it was purer. This verse tells us that when God promised Abraham a child in his old age, he didn’t consider his own body or the deadness of Sarah’s womb. What a statement! Consider means, “to deliberate on, examine; to think or deem.” Abraham didn’t think on anything contrary to what God promised him.

Most of us would’ve gone to the doctor and asked, “Is this really possible?” We would have had Sarah tested to see if she was capable of conceiving. We would have tried to remember if anyone we knew ever had a child when they were 100 years old. Only after considering every negative thing would we have gone back to God’s promise and tried to muster up the faith to believe what He said.

Our believing or doubting is inextricably linked to what we think on. We cannot be tempted with something we don’t think. Therefore, refusing to think on negative things means we can’t believe negative things. The real strength of Abraham’s faith was in what he considered and what he failed to consider. Unbelief had no inroad into Abraham’s life because he refused to think on things contrary to God’s Word.

What do you consider? Do you listen to all the unbelief of this world and then try to overcome it with a little time with God each day? You can’t let the sewage of this world flow through you without it hindering your faith! Strong faith like Abraham’s is faith that only focuses on what God says. (AW)