“Faith responds to an already given grace. This faith is not
simply an embrace of the goodness which meets us in the world, but a reception
of the goodness of God promised in
spite of the way the world is. The faith of Abraham is not in anything he sees in
the world, but in a word which will overcome the barrenness of the world. Faith
is reliance on God’s promise of overcoming the present for a new life.” -Walter Brueggemann, Genesis
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