Righteous faith

Abraham was credited as a man of great faith (Hebrews 11:11-12, 17-19; Romans 4:3; Galatians 3:6-9). Yet he was not a man of perfect faith. After God called him to leave his country and go to the place God chose for him to go, at least twice he took matters into his own hands by saying that Sarah was his sister, instead of trusting God to keep him safe (Genesis 12:10-20, 20:1-18). And instead of trusting God to allow Sarah to have a child, Abraham listened to Sarah and had a child with her maidservant, Hagar. Yet God did not hold these misgivings against him. We will never live perfectly and trust perfectly in God. But, like Abraham, we can be sure that our focus is constantly on Him, and we too can be credited as ones of great faith.