Abraham

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac . . . (Hebrews 11:17).

And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God (James 2:23).

God counseled Abraham to leave his own country and go in pilgrimage into the land which God has shown him, that is, the “Land of Promise” . . . Now the good counsel which God enjoined here on the father of the faithful is incumbent on all the faithful, that is, to leave their country and their land, their wealth and their worldly delight, for the sake of the Lord of the elements, and go in perfect pilgrimage in imitation of him.
~ St Columba

Abraham did not know the way, but he knew the Guide.
~ Lee Roberson

The people who related to God best—Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah—treated Him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if He were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated Him like a person.
~ Philip Yancey

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture taken from the New King James Version®, NKJV © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
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