THE PROMISE IS TRUE - Romans 4

“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. And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.” - Romans 4 : 20-22

God chose Abram and it is important to understand that Abram did not qualify. It is evident that it was not because Abram was a holy and righteous man that God chose him. In fact, he never knew God, but God chose him. God came to him and told him he was going to bless him. He told him that he was choosing him to qualify for his blessings. And to seal it with Abram, God was going to make a covenant with him. God swore an oath, and bound himself to him with a promise that said, “I will bless you and make you into many nations even though you do not deserve it.”

Abraham believed the promise! It was an amazing moment in history, that a childless man believed in a promise that God would bless him and give him a child. And because he believed God and considered the promise to be true, it was counted to him as righteousness.

Therefore, It was in and through the grace of God that would be later paid for and completed by Christ’s perfect sacrifice and finished work at the cross. 

God's promise is as inevitable as rain falling. His promise is secure. God does not lie. We are called to inherit his promises. The Holy Spirit in us is the promise of God to give us all things in grace. And just as Abraham without the Holy Spirit believed the promise, we with the Indwelling power of Christ are encouraged to have a confident expectation that God’s promise made manifest in Christ is ours.

For Abraham, God's promise to him became the anchor point of his life. This anchor point is now the promise fulfilled in Christ and the grace we now live through the finished work of the cross.