Some of us are in situations that can be characterized by bleak hopelessness. If you don’t understand what I mean, I’m telling you that your situation, to you, seems like that there is nothing you can do to win or even survive. Every move you make leads to more despair and every single breath you take becomes more suffocating than the last. This may be caused by your personal economics or social status, but nevertheless the feeling is that of hopelessness. Our passage in Romans makes us reflect upon our current hopeless situation and challenges us to believe against all possible hope. No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. (Romans 4:21-22) The Apostle Paul, writing in reference to how the Christian faith was borne out of a hopeless situation, compares the promise God makes to Abraham and Sarah when all in their life was seemingly hopeless, at best. You may argue that Abraham’s situation was better than your own, but look at how Paul describes Abraham and Sarah’s plight when God called them to be the progenitor of nations: “…. when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb” (v 19). It was despite the fact that he was way too old to have a child when God promised Abraham a child; and yet, he did not weaken in faith. That is encouragement for all of us. You see, our situations can be bleaker than bleak, but Abraham was as “good as dead” and yet he believed in God against all odds. I believe that you see yourself as a dead man walking or as the walking dead, but God has something promised for your life that is greater than your so called life circumstance. It is here at this juncture where you and I both, despite what is going against us, need to buckle down and reach into the promises of God for our lives. God does not save us from the wages of sin and death to make us walk around living in the constant agony of the death and sin around us. God saves us through the blood of Jesus for the sake of His glory and no doubt in our mind should make us waver from that truth. If your circumstance has currently put you on your hind-side looking up, looking at everybody passing you by, you need to realize that God does not waver. You need to realize that being on your back, prostrate on the floor, looking up only gives you the leverage you need to grow stronger in faith because God has promised you greater. Its time this season for you to start believing against all hope.
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