Testing of Abraham - Impossibility

 2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. James 1:3

 1.  Change

2.  Uncertainty

3.  Delay

4.  Perceived impossibility.

 

5.  Unfair Situations 

 "By faith, Abraham when God tested him..."  Hebrews 11:17

It is a test. 

 v. 19 "Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead and figuratively speaking he did raise Isaac back from the dead."