Imagine being told at 99 years old that you'll father a child with your 90-year-old wife.

You'd likely break out in laughter.

Well, that's exactly how Abraham responded to God's impossible promise.

Yet this same outlandish situation became the

ultimate example of faith that Scripture celebrates. Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall

explores the beautiful irony at the heart of Christianity. We're called to trust completely in what

we cannot see to receive what seems too good to be true.

Eternal life, perfect righteousness, and God's unfailing love.

In our study of the letter to the Romans, we find ourselves in the latter half of the fourth chapter

where our Holy God again communicates his truth for us.

I invite you to turn to chapter four of Romans at verse 16.

We'll begin the reading.

For this reason, it is by faith in order that it may be in

accordance with grace so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to

those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father

of us all, As it is written,

a father of many nations have I made you. In the presence of him whom he believed, even God,

who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. Still referring to Abraham, Paul continues,

in hope against hope, he believed,

so that he might become a father of many nations,

according to that which had been spoken,

so shall your descendants be.

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