Almost every day we hear...
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Almost every day we hear things that are hard to believe. Some of the commercials on television are hard to believe. It is hard to believe that if we use a certain brand of toothpaste we will have sex appeal, or if we wear a certain brand of aftershave we will drive the women wild, or if we use a certain dish detergent we will have soft hands, or brand X will get our clothes cleaner than any other detergent, or one brand of aspirin is stronger than any other. Election day is near. We often find it difficult to believe politicians when they tell us they have the answers to such problems as crime, unemployment and welfare. In our text we find God speaking with Abraham, and the Lord tells Abraham that even though he is advanced in years, his wife will bear him a son. This is something that is difficult to believe. But Abraham believed what the Lord had told him. "And he believed the Lord; and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness." (Genesis 15:6).
