June 3, faith for the impossible. He grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,

fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. Romans 4, 2021. Paul has in mind

a special reason why faith glorifies God's future grace. Simply put, the reason is that this

God glorifying faith is a future-oriented confidence in God's integrity and power and wisdom to follow

through on all his promises. Paul illustrates this faith with Abraham's response to the promise of God,

that he would be the father of many nations, even though he was old and his wife was

Baron Romans 4, 18. In hope, he believed against hope, that is, he had faith in the future grace of God's

promise in spite of all human evidences to the contrary. He did not weaken in faith when he

considered his own body, which was as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old,

and when he considered the Baroness of Sarah's womb, no unbelief made him waver concerning the promise

of God. But he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was

able to do what he had promised. Romans 4, 19 to 21. The faith of Abraham was a faith in the promise of

God to make him the father of many nations. This faith glorified God because it called attention

to all the omnipotent supernatural resources of God that would be required to fulfill it. Abraham

was too old to have children and Sarah was Baron. Not only that, how do you turn a son or two into

many nations which God said Abraham would be the father of? It all seemed totally impossible.

Therefore, Abraham's faith glorified God by being fully assured that he could and would do

the humanly impossible. This is the faith we are called to have that God will do for us what we

could never do for ourselves.