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希伯来书：11:11-12：11因着信，连撒拉自己，虽然过了生育的岁数，还能怀孕，因她以为那应许他的是可信的。12所以从一个彷彿已死的人就生出子孙，如同天上的星那样众多，海边的沙那样无数。
有时候我们会忘记撒拉。她的信心不够完美，但其实亚伯拉罕的信心也不完美。她提议让亚伯拉罕通过她的使女夏甲生个儿子。她自己把一个女人放到了亚伯拉罕的床上，亚伯拉罕也没有拒绝。当上帝说她一年之后会有一个孩子时，她笑了，因为她的年纪老迈，她几乎已经放弃了希望。但是她依然相信，那位信实的上帝会通过某种方式实现他的应许。
信心并不是我们自己就可以产生和生长的。信心是上帝每一天都在我们里面培育成长的。我们可以把亚伯拉罕和撒拉当作是信心的奇迹。但是读完整个故事，你会明白是上帝在一步步建造和培养他们的信心。他先后六次向亚伯拉罕显现，赐给他应许，叫他有信心。当我们阅读关于亚伯拉罕的故事的时候，不要看到一个有极大信心的人，而是要看到一位伟大、怜悯、有耐心的上帝，一个亚伯拉罕和撒拉可以信靠的上帝。“因她认定那应许她的是可信的。”“认定”这个词意味着她仰望上帝，并且看到这位上帝是值得他信靠的。
所以不要看你自己的信心，就好像你可以量化自己的信心，或者好像自己已经毕业并成为一个有信心的人。你要始终仰望那位曾经来到世上的上帝，他为你的罪而死，第三天复活，并升天。认定他，仰望他，敬畏他，并相信他。
祷告：全能的上帝啊，你创造了万物，我眼见你手所造的工，你当然值得我相信！我眼见你儿子的救赎工作。你亲自差派你的儿子耶稣来拯救我。我又怎能不信靠他？他的信实何其广大。主啊，我信，但我信不足！请帮我消除疑虑，如此我便能因信而活！阿们。
Hebrews 11: 11 And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12 And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Sometimes we forget about Sarah. Her’s was not a perfect faith, but neither was Abraham’s. She suggested to Abraham that they raise a child through her servant, Hagar. She put a woman in Abraham’s bed, and he didn’t say no. She laughed when God said she would have a child in one year when she was so old, she had all but given up hope. And yet, she did believe that somehow, someway her faithful God would keep his promise.
Faith is not something we arrive it. It is Something that God is growing in us every day. We look at Abraham and Sarah and see such a wonder faith. But read the whole story and you will see a faith that God was building and growing. Six times he appeared to Abraham with a promise so that he had something to believe in. When we read the story of Abraham, do not see a man with an enormous faith. Rather, see an enormously great and merciful and patient God, a God in whom Abraham and Sarah could believe. “She considered him faithful who had made the promise.” The word “considered” means that she looked at God and found him more than worthy of her faith.
So don’t look at your faith, as if you can quantify it, or as if you have graduated and arrived at becoming a person of faith. Look instead at the God who came into the world, died for your sins, rose again on the third day, and ascended into heaven. Consider him. Look at him. Stand in awe of him. And believe! Prayer: Lord God almighty, Creator of all, I look at all that you have made and surely you are worthy of my faith! I look at your great saving acts, that you sent your Son to come and redeem me, and how can I not put my faith in one who is faithful beyond measure. Lord, I do believe. Help me overcome my doubts and my unbelief, so that I may live by faith! Amen.