A brief assessment of Abraham’s relationship with God and we will have the necessary elements of the secret to the success of his faith.

Abraham’s life wasn’t just about conquests as many may think. He was chosen by God to take up the most relevant position of man: to be the blessing itself. For this reason, his other achievements, apart from reaching the blessed age of 175, are irrelevant.

He was a blessing, but this does not mean he was free from trials. These were and will be a University to form the faith. The lack of this formation has led most Christians to turn away from the faith.

Abraham was a blessing, but he had to pay the price for this. He learned to live by faith in the deserts. He had to persevere through each tribulation, and every time he persevered he gained experience, and with each experience came new hope.

Abraham learned that to be a blessing and rely on faith, he would have to sacrifice. He was used to sacrificing; his whole life was a sacrifice. And the limit of his sacrifice was his son. The pain was immense, but not unbearable because he was accustomed to using his sacrificial faith.

Wouldn’t this sacrificial faith also be what the Lord Jesus requires from His followers?

If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. Matthew 16.24

And isn’t the absence of this what has led most evangelicals to hell?

What amazes me the most about Abraham’s life is that he was a sacrifice, even though he was a blessing!

There is no other way!

Those who truly want to live by faith must prepare themselves to live in sacrifice. To live from faith to faith means living from sacrifice to sacrifice.

In all my 56 years of life with my Lord, I can testify: I have never conquered a single blessing with ease. My Salvation, my marriage, my children, any personal achievements, this is, everything had the effective participation of a sacrifice. Not because I enjoyed it! I sacrificed and continue to sacrifice because I see no other way to go about it…

Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you were dug. Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him alone, and blessed him and increased him. Isaiah 51.1-2