Thomas Edison wanted to created something to store electricity. Time after time, intact , fifty thousand times he had failed. But he kept trying and eventually he succeeded. He had invented the first battery.
Someone asked him, “Don't you get discouraged when you have to try fifty thousand experiments before you get any results?” “Results ?” Thomas Edison replied, “ Why , I have got lots of results. I now know fifty thousand things that won't
work.”
Thomas Edison didn't get discouraged when he didn't instant results. Perhaps, that is why Thomas Edison is credited with almost one thousand and three hundred inventions, including record players, films, microphones, lightbulbs, and the transmitter that made telephone possible.
Just as Thomas Edison didn't expect instant results , so did Abraham waited for God’s promises to come true. Read
Genesis 15:1-5
1:After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
2:But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
3:And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
4:Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.”
5: He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
