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「亞伯拉罕仍舊站在耶和華面前。」（聖經創世記十八章 22 節）
神的朋友可以為別人說情，可能我們以為亞伯拉罕的信心，同與神的友誼，是我們沒有可能及到的。不要失望，亞伯拉罕是漸漸上進的；我們也可以漸漸上進的。我們追求，是跑步，不是跳遠。
無價的鑽石都是曾經過切磋琢磨的；貴重的金屬都是曾經過烈火試驗的。假使亞伯拉罕未曾受過極大的試煉，他絕不能被稱為信心之父，。請讀聖經創世記二十二章二節；「你帶著你的兒子，就是你獨生的兒子，你所愛的。」看哪，他帶著一個謙卑順服的心，一步一步牽著他的心上人，向摩利亞山上走去，預備獻給他所敬愛、事奉的神！
他這麼作，給今天疑惑神的對付的人們一個何等大的責備！他這麼作，惹起天使的注意。他這麼作，堅固以後神的兒女的信心。他這麼作，使信徒知道不猶豫的信心能證明神的信實。
當得勝的信心達到頂點的時候，耶和華的使者對他說：「現在我知道你是敬畏神的了。」你既信任我到極點，現在我也要信任你；你可以永遠做我的朋友，我必祝福你，也必使你成為一個祝福。
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"Abraham stood yet before the Lord." (Gen. 18:22.)
THE friend of God can plead with Him for others. Perhaps Abraham's height of faith and friendship seems beyond our little possibilities. Do not be discouraged, Abraham grew; so may we. He went step by step, not by great leaps.
The man whose faith has been deeply tested and who has come off victorious, is the man to whom supreme tests must come.
The finest jewels are most carefully cut and polished; the hottest fires try the most precious metal. Abraham would never have been called the Father of the Faithful if he had not been proved to the uttermost. Read Genesis, twenty-second chapter: "Take thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest." See him going with a chastened, wistful, yet humbly obedient heart up Moriah's height, with the idol of his heart beside him about to be sacrificed at the command of God whom he had faithfully loved and served!
What a rebuke to our questionings of God's dealings with us! Away with all doubting explanations of this stupendous scene! It was an object lesson for the ages. Angels were looking. Shall this man's faith stand forever for the strength and help of all God's people? Shall it be known through him that unfaltering faith will always prove the faithfulness of God?
Yes, and when faith has borne victoriously its uttermost test, the angel of the Lord─who? The Lord Jesus, Jehovah, He in whom "all the promises of God are yea and amen"─spoke to him, saying, "Now I know that thou fearest God." Thou hast trusted me to the uttermost. I will also trust thee; thou shalt ever be My friend, and I will bless thee, and make thee a blessing.
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