Abraham, An Example of Righteous Faith

Covenant with God

Called into Covenant with God

God's Covenant with Abraham

Romans 4:1-5 The Message

Trusting God

4 1-3 So how do we fit what we know of Abraham, our first father in the faith, into this new way of looking at things? If Abraham, by what he did for God, got God to approve him, he could certainly have taken credit for it. But the story we’re given is a God-story, not an Abraham-story. What we read in Scripture is, “Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own.”
4-5 If you’re a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don’t call your wages a gift. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it’s something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.

For Reflection Pray

How are you playing your God Story? Does your God Story help people find a new way of doing things? God has opened the door for you, and you have entered into the God Story playing your part as a co-conspirator in restoring the world in God's image, inviting all who would pass through the portals into their own role in the God Story.  

Pray

Pray so that like Abraham, your life becomes the story of God's reconciliation of humankind.