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Meditation No. 1739
🔆 AATHAVAN –
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
“Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain; When he was only one I called him, Then I blessed him and multiplied him.” — Isaiah 51:2 (NASB)
Today’s meditation verse instructs us to look to Abraham and Sarah. It not only tells us to merely look at them but also urges us to take their life of faith as our model and live accordingly. Through such a life of faith, we too are encouraged to receive blessings just as they received them.
We have often read in Scripture about the faith of Abraham. It is written:
“Yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.” — Romans 4:20–21 (NASB)
Abraham proved his faith in two great moments of his life.
First, when God promised him a son, Abraham was around seventy-five years old. Though childless, he believed God’s promise that He would give him a son.
“Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.” — Romans 4:19 (NASB)
Just as he believed, the promise was fulfilled when he was one hundred years old, and Isaac was born.
Yes, beloved, for twenty-five long years Abraham waited in faith for God’s promise to come true. During those years, many may have mocked him—calling him a foolish old man for still believing in a promise. Yet Abraham did not doubt. He was “fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform,” and thus he glorified God through steadfast faith.
Second, Abraham demonstrated his faith when God asked him to offer his only son Isaac as a burnt offering. Listening to God’s voice, Abraham was ready to sacrifice his son. He did not even tell Sarah, knowing that she would never agree and might stop him. This silence itself reflected the depth of his faith in God.
“It was he to whom it was said, ‘Through Isaac your descendants shall be named.’ He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type.” — Hebrews 11:18–19 (NASB)
Earlier, God had promised Abraham, “I will greatly multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore.” And He also said, “Through Isaac your descendants shall be named” (Genesis 21:12, NASB).
Therefore, Abraham believed that the same God who gave the promise was powerful enough to fulfil it—even if it meant raising Isaac from the dead. That faith made him ready to offer Isaac as a sacrifice.
Today’s verse urges us to reflect deeply on these things. This is why Abraham is called the father of faith. When we face negative circumstances or when our prayers seem unanswered, we often grow anxious or fall into doubt. But in such moments, let us look to Abraham.
“By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised. Therefore, even from one man, and one who was as good as dead at that, there were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.” — Hebrews 11:11–12 (NASB)
As today’s verse reminds us, let us look to our father Abraham and our mother Sarah, and be strengthened in our faith in God.
📖 Message by: Bro. M. Geo Prakash
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