He Gave All of Himself

Galatians 3:6-9

6 Consider Abraham: "He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." 7 Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. 8 The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you." 9 So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. NIV

Abraham, a man no different than you and I, is remembered today because he believed God. One might ask then why his faith in God is held in such high regard by God that all nations would come to be blessed by through him?

It is because he believed with all his mind, with all his soul, and with all his strength. When God told him to go he went, without a clear destination. When God told him, a man of advanced age, that he and his wife would have a son: he believed. Even when God told him to go and sacrifice his son, he obeyed.

Believing God is acting in faith and with full trust in God. It is obeying Him when it does not make sense to us. It is going ahead when we can’t see the end. It is obeying, no matter how difficult it seems. It is waiting on God when the waiting sometimes feels maddening.

God asks the same thing from us, to believe in His Son. In doing so we are blessed with the saving grace that Jesus brings. He gave all of Himself to make that happen. That is love. Abraham is remembered for that same reason: he gave all of himself.