5 And he (the Lord) brought him (Abraham) forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be (Genesis 15).
This experience I would imagine was one that Abraham never forgot. Being out under the stars fills me with wonder and awe. There is something special and almost magical about gazing up at all those twinkling lights. Think of the awe it caused in Abraham's heart when the Lord told him that his seed would be numerous like the stars. And here he was, getting to be an old man, and still had no children, and indeed by all accounts it must have seemed to him and Sarah at that point that they would never have children, and that maybe it wasn't even physically possible to have children anymore.
But he believed the Lord! And the rest is history. Here I am, a child of Abraham and Sarah myself, one of billions, one little twinkling star among a whole sky full.
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