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Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Four. Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. Genesis twenty five eight. Abraham ended a life of faith having walked in such close fellowship with God that he was called the friend of God.

but when he died at a hundred and seventy five years old, his standing in the world from a human perspective might not seem to have warranted his nomadic life of sacrifice and faith. he sojourned in the land given to him by covenant. but he did not take possession of it in any real sense. although he gained a measure of worldly possessions, he evidently gave up a stable and satisfying life of luxury among his people to follow God into the land of promise. Once there, his nephew, Lot, deserted him, taking the fertile land as his own.

Abraham saw war, famine, compromise, fighting between his two wives, and did not have children until his old age. He lived in poor relationship with his neighbors and eventually lost his dear wife Sarah. But when Abraham died, Scripture says he died completely satisfied, the literal meaning of the word full in our text. He had learned to measure time by eternity, to weigh the value of earthly things by the Spirit. for he looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God.

he had believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. The fullness of Abraham was that of a wealth that death could not touch. The seeming fullness of those who walk by sight and not by faith is emptied in death. Men and women of faith carry their fullness with them. when the time comes, may we all die as Abraham did.

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