Against All Odds: Trusting God’s Promises When Logic Says ‘No’
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Hey y'all. So, um, I was in God's word and, and studying it. Sometimes God will have me do different things because number one, he knows. I get sidetracked and I have to have something that is different every now and then because I get bored easily and then I can't focus on all the things. So he mixes it up and helps me to think of creative, different creative ways to, to read and, and study his word.
So with that said, right now, it's got to where I put the scriptures down and then I, um, kind of go back and pick them apart and pray through them and just ask God to reveal what he wants me to learn in that. And so Romans 4:18-21 is where he had me. It's one of my favorite passages. It says, “Against all hope Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead.”
Yet he did not wave an unbelief regarding the promises of God, but was strengthening his faith. Gave glory to God and believed that God had the power to do as he promised. Okay, so when I began to, to pick that apart against all hope Abraham and Hope believed, and so became. Okay. Against all Hope Abraham in Hope believes.
So basically, whatever it was, and we're gonna, I'm fixing to tell you, um, logic said there's no way, there's no way. Abraham was not denying the fact of logic. I mean, he says, listen, my body is as good as dead. I'm a hundred years old and God is, I believe God has revealed to me that well, and he did. Um, we see it in scripture, but revealed to him that he is going to have a very large family, have kids that are gonna go on to have families that are gonna be fathers of many nations.
Right. But logically he's going, you know, there's no way. And so it got me thinking about what God reveals to us through his scriptures and in our prayer time that logically just does not seem like there's any evidence that it could possibly happen. That it could possibly happen. What is that for you? I remember when I was applying for OT school and y'all, I just wasn't, I couldn't compete.
My grades were not like the others. There was just nothing that said I should get in. It's very competitive. And I was living in Birmingham at the time, and I remember going to their department chair, uh, chair head or whatever. Um, and I was, um, asking her about that and what, look at my, look at this, you know, look at my, my transcripts and all this, and do you think I have any chance?
And she looked at me and she goes, you don't have a snowballs chance in hell of getting in here. And I remember just going, okay. And I left and I just did not. Receive it. Like, I was like, no, I think that the Lord has told me that this is what I'm supposed to do, and I have been praying and really pursuing him, and I believe this is where I'm supposed to be, and, and I got in.
I did get in. And so I say that to say sometimes we look at our lives and we go, well, I'm too old. Oh, I this, I'm, I've just passed that, that age, or, I'm too young. I couldn't, nobody's gonna believe this or, or let me, or listen to me, or whatever. Sometimes we're like, well, you know what, I, I don't have the finances or I don't have the.
The education or I don't have the health, my health is, is, is not good or whatever it is that we often say logically, maybe it does look like that. But the thing is God doesn't go off logic. He's looking for a heart that will lean in, a heart that'll trust him, and a heart that will do what, do what he's calling us to do.
It doesn't mean that when God reveals something to us. That we go and sit back until it happens. We, we put in that work of whatever that is and we continue to pray and we continue to, to pursue whatever he is he is telling us because that's part of trusting God and that's part of glorifying God like Abraham did.
That's part of, that's part of exercising faith is we are continuing to, to pursue whatever that is. Maybe there's a relationship that just looks like it is just broken and there's just nothing left. But God has really pressed in on us. Don't you give up. Don't give up. Whatever it is. Let's remind ourselves again against all hope Abraham and Hope believed and so became.
Abraham was not a name claimant. He was not a manifesting, he was not a pie in the sky. No. He had had time with the Lord. He believed of the Lord had, well, he knew that the Lord had told him these things and he stuck with that trust in him. And so whatever that is for you. Hang in there. Believe him.
Believe him. Bye guys.
