Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Seven times Abraham is spoken of in Romans 4 as “our father.” He had to wait until nearly 100 for the birth of his first son, Isaac, the one “promised.” Can you imagine the years of depression he and Sarah endured—waiting “against hope,” who still “believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations”? Abraham learned that “God.... gives life to the dead, and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations..... He did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith. Giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform” (vss. 16-21).
Our “father” Abraham became an expert in battling with depression. The New Covenant promises are what brought him through into the sunlight. The New Covenant promises given to him and thus to all his descendants (you and me!) are in Genesis 12:2, 3. To say glibly that they are the “cure” for our widespread malady of depression is to be superficial; they are not to be compared with this or that drug developed by the pharmaceutical companies; they are simply “the faith of Jesus.”
But they are included in the “everlasting gospel” of Revelation 14:6-12, and it is our privilege to live in their sunlight every day of our lives.
We want to examine those seven promises that God made to Abraham. And see how they apply to us. Tomorrow if the Lord wills, we shall do so.
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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