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  Like Abraham, life can look hopeless, as though everything is stacked up against you, especially when expecting a particular outcome, even one promised by God. It is easy in these times for doubt to sink in and wonder if God is really there. However, as the Apostle Paul shares in Romans 4, we can look to Abraham for an example of how to move forward and not give up in the face of uncertainty.  For Abraham, the promised blessings given him not only seemed unlikely, but as though they would never come. Yet despite not knowing how or when, he had hope in the promises given. He stayed true to the faith, living a life that strengthened his faith by not focusing on the challenges that stood between him and the promises given of God and instead embraced the goodness of God that he could see all around him and expressed that glory in praise to God. And then, by seeing this goodness, he was reassured again and again that God was "Able Also" to perform the unlikely miracle in his lif...

In first Corinthians 16:6-7, Paul teaches us what it means to live by faith. He writes, " And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go. For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, IF the Lord permit ."  Paul, in these two verses, shares with the Corinthian Saints that he doesn't know what is going to happen. He is hopeful that he will be able to come and visit with these people whom he the loves dearly. However, he exemplifies what living by faith looks like by letting these saints know that he is okay with whatever path God will lead him down. He trusts that God will take care of them and him, and that he is willing to go wherever God will send him.  Living by faith is not easy. I have had the wonderful opportunity to be schooled in this kind of living over the last year as my family was led to move back to Utah after living away for nearly 15 years. Many things didn...