Thank you for this reflection on Abraham. I like your nots of faith- not by probability, not an emotional surge, not a fanciful thing or protection into the ideal. Again it was his relationship with God. It was whom he heard. I like faith doesn't resolve contradictions, it inhabits them. And- the promise carried him. That he didn't waver, but it wasn't due to his own virtue, but knowing God. Hopeful for all of us mere mortals.
“Hopeful for all of us mere mortals”. Yes! That is exactly it. That is why Paul gives us Abraham at all, I think. Not to show us an unreachable giant of faith, but to show us a man who was simply willing to stay before God in the dark.
You’ve gathered the heart of this reflection more precisely than I could have summarized it myself. Faith that inhabits contradiction rather than resolving it. This has been the hardest and most freeing thing I’ve learned in seasons of waiting.
Thank you for reading so carefully and for letting me know the way this moved in you. This kind of response is why I write. 🙏
Thank you for this reflection on Abraham. I like your nots of faith- not by probability, not an emotional surge, not a fanciful thing or protection into the ideal. Again it was his relationship with God. It was whom he heard. I like faith doesn't resolve contradictions, it inhabits them. And- the promise carried him. That he didn't waver, but it wasn't due to his own virtue, but knowing God. Hopeful for all of us mere mortals.
“Hopeful for all of us mere mortals”. Yes! That is exactly it. That is why Paul gives us Abraham at all, I think. Not to show us an unreachable giant of faith, but to show us a man who was simply willing to stay before God in the dark.
You’ve gathered the heart of this reflection more precisely than I could have summarized it myself. Faith that inhabits contradiction rather than resolving it. This has been the hardest and most freeing thing I’ve learned in seasons of waiting.
Thank you for reading so carefully and for letting me know the way this moved in you. This kind of response is why I write. 🙏