"Now as for you,
you have so many good things stored up for many years,
rest, eat, drink, be merry!"'
This is the thing we secretly all desire for ourselves. We try our best to minimize the uncertainty of live. To the extent that we are unwilling to trust God this becomes a source of great anxiety because, ultimately, we can't minimize the uncertainty of life. Even when it seems to be working it is only an illusion.
We work so hard for love and peace and joy when these fruits of the Holy Spirit can only be given. We can ask and keep asking, we can open ourselves to receive them, we can even claim them and believe for them. But we cannot create them. Faith is the antidote to the modern plague of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
Abraham did not doubt God's promise in unbelief;
rather, he was empowered by faith and gave glory to God
and was fully convinced that what God had promised
he was also able to do.
We are now able to trust God. We know that he is faithful to his promises. We know that in him we always have all we need. Cognitive dissonance? Do lots of 'What if?' questions arise in our minds as soon as we try to think that thought? "I believe my lord; help the lack of my faith" (see Mark 9:24). This is how we become "rich in what matters to God."
This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
to set us free from the hands of our enemies,
free to worship him without fear,
holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.
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