Abraham a man just like us…

I was studying the life of Abraham the other day.  It hit me, what do most people think of when they think of Abraham?  Is he an example of great faith?  Or is he an example of a man who struggled in his faith?  I have concluded the latter.  Of course Abraham was obedient to the call and testing on Mount Moriah, but Abraham was a man just like you and me.  He was riddled with fears, anxieties, deceit, selfish motives, and ambitions.  He was a man of enormous trust in God, but God had to consistently get in his face.  We don’t measure our salvation by the strength of our faith, we bank our salvation on the promises of God for us.   We should examine our faith daily to see if we believe all that Christ merited for us.  When we set up heros of the faith and aspire to be like them we are forgetting grace.  Abraham is a story of how grace triumphed over a man, a son, a family, a nation, and a Church.  Faith simply receives and rests in the promise that Christ removed our guilt and set us free!  You are a son or daughter of Abraham when you cling to the promises to us in Christ, not when we set up some giant image of a man and strive after it.  Just a thought…