Journey to The Journey

One of my favorite books of the Bible is Genesis and in particular from chapters 11 onward as we are introduced to Abram (Abraham). For the "uninitiated," Abraham's family is the Bible's equivalent of the Skywalkers in the Star Wars franchise (if you don't know what I am talking about, I just can't help you!). I say that partly in jest, but it's actually not a bad analogy. What I mean is that, the whole story is tied to the family tree of Abraham. Through him, God goes on to establish a people for himself and more importantly, he establishes covenantal promises with Abraham and his offspring that point to, and are eventually fulfilled in Christ Jesus, the promised Messiah. I wrote a more detailed blog post on the concept of the covenant in scripture and why it is so important to how God has worked through redemptive history. You can read that here. For today though, the key takeaway is that Abraham is one of the most important people we meet in the scriptures.

Over the last few weeks in our study over the book of Hebrews we have slowed down to reflect on various aspects of faith. We've looked at what faith is and how it is manifest in the lives of believers through examples that the author puts forward from the Old Testament. What has hopefully started to come into focus is that faith is far more complex than one would probably imagine upon first glance.