And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? (Job 17:15) Job was at the bottom. Everything he had was gone. In the depth of that despair, he asked a question that honest people ask when they have been hit hard enough and long enough. “Where is my hope now? Who can even see it?” That sounds like the cry of a man who has lost everything, including the confidence that things will ever be right again. Job was voicing what the enemy most wants to accomplish in every

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. (Hebrews 6:15-16) There is a phrase in Hebrews 6:15 that tells you everything you need to know about how Abraham received the promise: “After he had patiently endured.” It wasn’t immediately or quickly; it came after. Abraham endured the years of waiting, went through seasons that did not make sense, and had fait

And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:29) Paul wrote this verse to ensure no one missed this connection. Some believers read the story of Abraham as ancient history—something remarkable that happened to one remarkable man a long time ago. But Paul shut that thinking down completely. He wrote, "If you belong to Christ, you are Abraham's seed,”—not metaphorically, not in an inspirational sense, but legally, in the ey