"It was counted to make him right," Romans 4:3.
What counted? That he believed God. That's what counted. He believed what God told him. His faith in God counted. Who counted it? God did. Whose faith? Abraham's. And what did this faith do? It made Abraham as righteous as God cared. (God cared a lot.) Abraham's living faith led him to follow God. No dead faith here. No careless nod to an absent Sovereign. This, a faith that caught Abraham on the brink of sacrificing his and Sarah's only son, Isaac. Living faith in God makes people children of promise to Sarah, God's free woman. Indeed, makes them righteous children of God.
We visit a brother or sister today believing God. And, together, we praise God who counted us righteous through the faith of his one and only son, Jesus.
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