1. The Bible Based Tale Of Abraham Offers Hope In The Midst Of
Adversity, Affliction, Loss, And Pain
When you are tempted to believe that the troubles of your life are more then you can bear. When
perhaps many and varied evils come upon you from "who knows where", and when you are tempted
to ask, "why does the Lord allow all these troubles in my life?" Perhaps, you should take a few
minutes and think about the testings of Abraham, the father of our faith. Yet, holy bible history records
that ultimately no promise of lord to Abraham fell to the ground void. Will Yahweh inflict less for us if
we remain faithful? When I could possibly get past the raging emotions of my heart during a time of
tribulation, at that point, i must admit that I think not really, but what do you think?
Abraham
Called associated with God at the age of seventy five to separate himself from their people, Abraham
took his household, leaving behind the life which was familiar to him, as well as began a journey that
demanded that he lead their people hundreds of miles by walking, and at the first, he had no idea
where he was heading. He was at that time provided a promise that he might become the father of a
excellent nation of people, but remember he was at the time 75 years of age, and his wife Sarah have
been barren. Later, after "deciding " in the land of Canaan they experienced a drought so severe they
were forced to leave Canaan and to flee to Egypt to obtain water and food. Only then to experience
pressure of being tempted to tell fifty percent truths to save his wife Sarah from being kidnapped, but
his efforts unsuccessful and she was kidnapped. Later on Sarah was, by the operating of God's
power came back to him. Then this guy of peace experienced quarreling and fighting amongst their
household to the extent that he had to separate himself from the nephew that was dear to him.
Essentially saying to him, "You choose the direction you want to go, and i'll go the other way." a while
later a band of marauders looted the city near to where his nephew had camped and had stolen away
his nephew and his home. Abraham was forced to produce an army from among his people and
some neighboring Canaanites, and launch a surprise attack against the marauders in order to free his
nephew and his family. Another twenty years handed while they waited for the guaranteed son to be
born whom was to be Abraham's heir, and the hope of the satisfaction of the promise that he would
be the father of a multitude. Keep in mind, Abraham was old if this promise from God came to him
and Sarah, however they both were old yet. Year past into yet another year, still the promise of God
which was dearest to their hearts hadn't come to them. Tempted to take the matter into their own
fingers Sarah gave her handmaiden into her husband's hands as a wife, that in the young woman
might come forth the promised seed. But Yahweh had never said that through another lady the
promised child will come forth, but through sarah, who through all the many years been barren. Then
when Abraham was 99 years old, and the wife Sarah was 90 the promised son came to them. Isaac
was born. But the troubles weren't over. Department again entered Abraham's encampment.
This time between sarah the wife of Abraham who was a free woman, and the Hagar, who was also a
spouse to Abraham, but the servant of Sarah. As the boys grew the division deepened until God
Himself lastly spoke to Abraham educating him to send the youthful boy and his slave mother away

2. from their encampment. So Abraham's son of 13 years of age was from that point onward held at a
distance from Abraham. Still the trials were not over. As the son associated with promise grew to be a
young teen the voice of the head of the family came to Abraham instructing him to take Isaac and go
to the mountains of Mariah there to sacrifice him like a burnt offering to the the majority of High God.
Of all the testings of this man's life, surely this was the very greatest of them all. To obey was to kill
this son of promise that he and debbie had dreamed of and waited so many years for.
It was to kill the very one who was their single great joy and treasure in this human life, but to refuse
the voice of god and disobey was to behave contrary to all his years of obedience to the God of
heaven. With a faith that is beyond description this guy walked out those few days prior to the
sacrifice, and proceeded towards the very point of joining the promised son on an altar. There he
elevated his knife to destroy him, but at that moment the actual voice of God directed him not to do it,
however that he was to raise their head and find a lambs stuck in the thicket, it was to be used as the
offering. Being tested, this man is discovered faithful.
Were The Major Testings Of This Man And His spouse Sarah Easy? Were these people any
easier then what we should as Christians might need to endure today? consider :
• Called of lord when he was seventy five years old to leave all that had been familiar to him as well
as travel to "who knows where?" for it was to be revealed exactly where he was going because
he/they traveled.
• From the point of leaving their homeland he and the community of people with him lived in tents,
moving as nomads across the land.
• Experienced a drought so extreme that it forced them to flee to a place exactly where he knew full
nicely the well being of his wife would be at stake.
• In truth, he had their fears realized when their wife Sarah was kidnapped, but was later shown the
mercy and energy of God in that she was delivered back to him.
• Experienced a major division exactly where he had to separate himself in one very dear to him, his
nephew Lot.
• Was forced by each love and duty to raise an army and go to the protection of his flesh and blood,
even though his nephew had not earlier shown complete honor to him.
• All this while Abraham lived with a wife who he loved very deeply, but yet being disappointed in the
reality that her tummy was barren. Yet possessing the promise of god that one day a child would
come, but year past 12 months and the promised child did not come.
• Not fully believing and not understanding God's ways they struck out to answer the lord's promise of
a child based on their own wisdom and ability by Sarah offering the woman's slave girl as a wife to
Abraham. Which resulted in a son being born to Abraham, but had been the beginning of the
distraction as well as pain of division that would plague their encampment for a long time.
• Having to cast the bondwoman (who was a spouse to him) and his/their son into the wilderness to
again establish peace as well as unity in his encampment as well as life. Thus having a boy and wife
that were dear to him held at a distance the rest of his life.
• Being told by Yahweh to consider the son of promise, this son who was more dear to him after that

3. life it's self, and offer the life of that son like a burnt offering on mount Moriah.
• Later, having past the check of being told to offer the kid's life as an offering in order to God,
Abraham had to encounter the challenge of finding a spouse suitable for Isaac, which he knew could
not be from among the people of the land where they dwelt, for they did not worship the god of
heaven. So, after that in yet another great behave of faith he directed his chief steward to come
back to the land of his birth to find there amongst his family a wife suitable for Isaac.
So fellow Believer, I request you to consider. Are the challenges that the Lord leads you through
anymore demanding than that which he or she led Abraham and his household through? Yet, we see
that God was faithful to him, (them) even when he (they) failed to be completely faithful to God. May
God not do the same for us who in these last days follow Him through the Holy Spirit? Does he or she
not speak to us his love and fidelity by the scripture in such verses as these, guaranteeing that He will
not forsake all of us, but bring a good finish to our lives if we'll trust Him and remain true and faithful?
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith god, the father, thoughts of peace, and
not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, as well as ye shall go and
pray unto me, and that i will hearken unto you. (Jeremiah 29:11-12 KJV)
Can a woman overlook her sucking child, that she should not have empathy on the son of her
womb? Yea, they may overlook, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the
palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. (Isaiah 49: 15-16)
What shall we say then to these things? If God end up being for us, who can be against us?
He that spared not His own Son, however delivered Him up for all of us all, how shall he not
with Him freely provide us with all things? (Romans 8 31-32 KJV)
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love god and are the called
according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28 KJV)
A Watchman,
Gregory A DeHart
Jeremiah 29