Hebrews 11: A 5-Day DevotionalSample

We who live since Jesus inaugurated the new covenant have seen God keep his greatest promises at the greatest cost to himself. Trusting God’s life-restoring power, Abraham was prepared to perform a heart-wrenching act and received God’s commendation: “You . . . have not withheld your son, your only son” (Gen. 22:16). His son was spared, replaced by a substitute that foreshadowed God’s ultimate gift of faithful love: “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?” (Rom. 8:32). When humanly impossible circumstances confront us as they did Abraham, our trembling hearts and fretful minds must be stilled to hear and heed our God’s probing question: “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” (Gen. 18:14).