The Impracticability & Futility Of Natural Will, Strength & Effort.
Abraham was made to learn in his body the lesson of the divine ways; he was made to face in his own body the impracticability & futility of natural effort as night by night those pendant lamps of heaven shone down over his whitening head, and the word of promise whispered in the stillness, "So shall thy seed be." There was absolutely nothing in his own body, age, strength or power that looked like it. He found in himself everything inimical and opposed to even the very thought of the possibility of bringing forth a seed. So Abraham had at last to walk before an Almighty God with a "body now biologically dead", which he could reckon upon no more. In his experience God would have us learn this, which we're often so slow to learn; that faith in ourselves is only so much unbelief in Him, and a hindrance to the blessing He has for us in his Word. We must come to that point where we no longer have ourselves or any other thing in view for reckoning but His Word. G...