I am a gentile.

By birth, of course.

But by what Jesus called “new birth” I am now “blessed” with “faithful Abraham!”

But that is clearly Jewish in flavor, “Abraham!”

Yes, and that is partly why the Apostle Paul wrote these words hundreds of years ago: “So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.” Galatians 3:9

The day God saved me, I was placed into that family which is here termed “of faith!”

In fact, that’s HOW I got into God’s family!

Of faith, “by faith,” again quoting Paul. (Ephesians 2:8-9)

By belief in, by trusting His Death on Calvary, JESUS!

And Mercy, truly … am I have been thereby “blessed!”

(Here Paul uses, under the Guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Greek verb “eulogeo.” Really meaning “to say something good” … about a person! Once in the New Testament (King James Version) it is translated “praised!” The only possible meaning here is that when you are saved … God has some “good things” to say about you!)

Wow!

That blessed in Jesus! 

And … logically … since Jesus is “of Abraham” … we are blessed “with (faithful) Abraham” but only in the sense that Jesus came out of the loins of that great (faithful) man!

I still am not a Jew!

Though I love those dear people!

But I am a child of Abraham spiritually, by faith in Abraham’s greater Son, Jesus Who is the eternal Son of Almighty God!

Wow!

To God be the Glory!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell