Taking God at His Word

One of the key characters of people of God is to take God at His word. Many became heroes of the Bible by taking God at His word. Abraham took God at His word initially, when God told Abraham that he will have a son (Gen 15:4). However, when Abraham's wife Sarah saw that she bore him no children, she drafted a plan B and tried to fulfill God's promise through Hagar, the outcome of which was Ishamael that turned out to be bitter for Sarah. If we could only learn to take God at His word and wait for Him to fulfill His promises for us, we will save ourselves from much of heart aches.

You may ask what it is to take God at His word?
If you believe the below scripture and do not doubt in your heart even a bit then you know what it is to take God at His word....

Hebrews 11:3 (NASB)
By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

If our faith is simple enough to believe what God is telling us straight, that is faith and we will until it becomes sight...