WAVERING
Romans 4

Where are you now? Are you in an unfamiliar ground or in a situation that seems like there is no way out? Every way has been blocked, and there is nowhere to turn to. In your situation, days, weeks, months, and years continue to pass and you cannot figure out a way to get out, except to hold onto the promises in the word of God. Through Jeremiah, God spoke to the children of Israel that were in captive, “For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:10-11) Any situation of captivity, or exile, makes no difference, but a constant reliance on the command, and authority, that is in the word of God makes the whole difference. The children of Israel were supposed to wait for seventy years for the Lord to bring them back from captivity. Do you know how long it will take you to come out from where you have found yourself? One thing is certain; the word of God will not fail in the life of those that turn to Him for a way out. The word that was sent to those that were in Babylon, is speaking to all that are on unfamiliar ground today. Father Abraham waited for the promise of God for almost one hundred years. Abraham was described in Romans 4: 19-21, “And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.” For almost one hundred years Abraham’s faith was not weakened. A weakened faith will lead to wavering in the process of waiting. Wavering will call for different options of coming out of a situation or challenge that is not familiar. Wavering can be dangerous, and could cause one to be derailed in the journey of faith. Wavering can also be the evidence of not remembering the promises of God, or to have forgotten the power of God. It can also be evidence of the loss of God’s presence in the life of a believer. Abraham was consistent in his journey of faith, to the point of gaining full confidence in the promises of God. What is playing a role in your waiting? Shut down every trace of unbelief, and you will rise to overcome.
Prayer for today: My Lord and My God, I am asking today for the grace that keeps man from wavering and failing from believing Your Word. Let me not fail in the journey of life.