“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.” Hebrews‬ ‭11‬:‭8‬-‭12‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Yesterday I talked about cultivating our own truth like Abram and Sarai did when making their own plans to have a son. The good news, even though their plan wasn’t God’s plan He was still faithful in His promise to Abraham. Can you imagine being told at the age of 100 that your wife is going to bear a son? Can you imagine birthing a baby at the age of 90 to a son you had been promised 25 years earlier?

The biblical definition of faith is found in Hebrews 11:1 NIV, “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” Martin Luther King Jr. Also defines faith in his speech at the New York Cities Park-Sheraton Hotel in 1962, “Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.” Our faith is like this photo by Ray White because we don’t know God’s big-picture plans until they happen. We might think it looks like something different and there will be times we mess up along the way. Like Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Rehab we need to keep the faith and prayerfully take the next step.

I urge you to read all of Hebrews 11 which is known as the “Faith Hall of Fame. And in case you missed “True God Thursday’s” post, I encourage you to go back and read it.