Greetings. Welcome to my blog! The Bible speaks of a man of faith and we always remember him as the father of faith. However, Abraham was only a man of faith, but also a man of perseverance.

It was as if the kickoff had sounded in his life when God promised him that he would have a son in his old age. But the years passed, and Abraham and Sarah still did not see the answer to God's promise. But the Bible tells us that Abraham "believed the Lord" (Gen 15: 5-6).

Abraham kept the eyes of his heart firmly on the Lord. Two years passed, and the boy did not arrive. But he still trusted God.
Despite a setback in the middle of the race (Gn 16), Abraham ran faithfully. For 25 years he walked in harmony with God until, finally, at the age of 100, he and his wife, aged 90, had a son (Gen 21: 1-3).

Why the long wait? Apparently, God wanted Abraham (and us!) To learn the relationship between waiting, trusting and waiting (Ps 33:20). And that hope, as the Apostle Paul reminds us, impels us to wait for God "with patience" (Romans 8:25).

Even when that means running the longest marathon of our life.