Count the Stars

 He (God) brought him (Abram) outside and said, "Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your descendants be."  And he believed the LORD; and the LORD reckoned it to him as righteousness.  Genesis 15:5-6 

I like to envision this scene.  Abram is doubting.  He cannot understand how God could accomplish what God has promised.  God - who must be used to doubting humans by now - takes Abram outside and has him look up at the uncountable stars.  "Count the stars, if you are able to count them."  Of course, Abram wouldn't have been able to count them.  I imagine this as a clear night, unlike any clear night most of us are used to.  Desert, no light pollution, no trees in the way - countless stars.  "So shall your descendants be."

In other words - "You can't imagine how I, God, can do what I have promised.  Really, what you can't imagine, is how wonderful the results of my promise will be."

Do we ever do that? Do we get so caught up in the doubt that we fail to imagine the wonder of the result?