The God Who Calls Things That Are Not | Cozy Afternoon Walk: Romans (S1), Ep.12

Cozy Afternoon Walk: A Daily Devotional · Aug 11, 2026 · 4m

Welcome to Cozy Afternoon Walk — a short pause in your day to sit with Scripture, one verse at a time.

Today's passage: Romans 4:17

"As it is written: 'I have made you a father of many nations.' He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not." (NIV)

Before Isaac was ever born, before there was a single shred of evidence, God called Abraham "a father of many nations" — speaking the promise into being before it had happened. We tend to trust only what's already confirmed, but God's order runs the other way…