Adventures in Hebrews 11, Part 1Verses taken from the American King James Version, unless stated otherwise.

Today we’re going to

read from Hebrews chapter 11.

“Faith is the confidence that what we hope

for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Through their faith, the people in days

of old earned a good reputation” (Hebrews 11:1-2 NLT).

Lovely breakfast. Thank you,

dear.

You’re welcome.

Saturday morning at the Reynolds’ house.

When you have confidence in something, you

are sure of it. You believe something will happen, or that something is

true.

Mommy is a great cook.

I know that you will take us

to batting practice this afternoon because you

promised to.

I’m hoping that the boys will clean

their room when they come home from

school.

Faith assures us about things that haven’t

happened yet or things that can’t be seen by

our human eyes.

Because you have

confidence in me, you know that

I will take you to batting practice.

We’ve never gone to this

batting range before, so how do we know

it’s there?

We saw the

brochure! Yes.

And we made reservations.

Yes. when

we know something will happen, even if it hasn’t yet, we can take steps toward making

it happen.

“By faith we understand

that the entire universe was formed at God’s

command, that what we now see did not come from

anything that can be seen” (Hebrews 11:3

NLT).

The first part of the verse is

talking about how God created the universe.

Because the Bible tells

us so?

John 1:3 says, “All things

were made through him, and without him was

not any thing made that was made”

(ESV).

That’s right. We can have faith in

what the Bible tells us about Creation, and we can also learn of discoveries

in science that point to a Creator.

How do we know that God created the world?

It’s like with the brochure for the

batting range! We haven’t seen the range, but we know that it’s there because of this

brochure.

Mr. Hopkins gave that to us. He’s been to the

batting range with Jeffrey and

Melissa.

Melissa’s my friend!

There are many things in the world that

we haven’t personally seen-or that can’t be seen with our eyes-

but we know they are there because we trust in reliable sources of

information.

The Bible is one of our

chosen reliable sources of information.

We trust in it because we see the good results of doing

so and because we know and love the author-God.

So what we’ve gathered so far is that faith

is rather mysterious.

oh, boy! Dad’s putting on his Old

Testament costume.

Yay!

To be continued…

S&S link: Christian Life and Faith: Biblical and Christian Foundation: Faith-2bfAuthored by R. A. Watterson. Illustrations by Zeb. Design by Christia Copeland.Published by My Wonder Studio. Copyright © 2012 by The Family International