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Sometimes I wish I could have been there in the room with Thomas Edison when he heard the first recorded sounds on his phonograph, or with the Wright brothers when the Wright Flyer first lifted off the North Carolina soil. As much as I would like to witness these historic events, even more so I would like to witness what happened in the minutes prior to them. What were these innovators feeling? How were they acting? What did they say? In those moments, they had no way of knowing for certain that their machines would work. The Wright Flyer could have just rolled on the ground, or could have lifted off and then crashed. The phonograph could have just played back static instead of sound. There were no guarantees, and yet Edison and the Wrights still made the attempt. That, to me, is an awesome picture of faith. These men trusted in the process and the research that had led them to those initial trials, and then they took a leap of faith.
Abraham, as described here in Romans, is not all that different from these inventors. However, instead of trusting in research or in trial and error, he clung to a promise of God by faith. God had promised him descendents, even in his old age, and Abraham trusted God and acted in faith, knowing that God would bring that promise to fruition. Another awesome picture of faith.
Abraham, as described here in Romans, is not all that different from these inventors. However, instead of trusting in research or in trial and error, he clung to a promise of God by faith. God had promised him descendents, even in his old age, and Abraham trusted God and acted in faith, knowing that God would bring that promise to fruition. Another awesome picture of faith.
