Thursday | 17 September 2026
Many years prior to Mount Moriah, the Lord had said to Abraham, ‘Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them … so shall your descendants be.’ Gen 15:5. This promise to Abraham was then confirmed by the immutable oath of God proclaimed on Mount Moriah. The Lord declared, ‘By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son – blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.’ Gen 22:16-18.
Significantly, through this oath, the promise of sonship was made sure to everyone who is the seed of Abraham, because they have obtained the same faith that he received. As Paul declared, ‘Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham.’ Rom 4:16.
Having been blessed with the life and faith of Christ, it is incumbent upon us to be diligent to make our call and election sure. 2Pe 1:10. Heb 3:6. Paul exhorted us to be steadfast, in this regard, writing, ‘For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast [lit: sure] to the end’. Heb 3:14. This is our response to the word of God’s oath, which has established the hope of sonship as an anchor of our soul, both sure and steadfast. Heb 6:19.
Further Study:
Isaiah 62
References:
Gen 15:5
Then He brought him outside and said, ‘Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.’ And He said to him, ‘So shall your descendants be.’
Gen 22:16-18
‘By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son — blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.’
Rom 4:16
Therefore, it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
2Pe 1:10
Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things, you will never stumble.
Heb 3:6
But Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
Heb 3:14
For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end.
Heb 6:19
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil.