Life Principle #14
God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
Life Examples
Abraham: The Man of Endurance
Call Abraham not only a man of faith (Gal. 3:9), but a man of endurance.
The starting gun sounded when God promised Abraham a son in his old age, and Abraham “believed in the Lord” (Gen. 15:5, 6). But a year came and went, and no child arrived.
Abraham kept running.
Two years flashed by, and still no child.
Still Abraham kept running.
Despite a stumble at mid-race (see Gen. 16), Abraham kept running. For 25 years he kept running, until at last, at age 100, he and his wife, age 99, had a son (Gen. 21:1–3).
Why the long wait? Apparently, God wanted Abraham (and us!) to learn the connection between waiting, trust, and hope (Ps. 33:20). And that hope, the apostle Paul reminds us, prompts us to wait on God “with perseverance” (Rom. 8:25).
Even if that means running the longest marathon of our life.
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