Our faith isn’t “safe” because of a lack of threat. It isn’t “safe” because of some illusion of permanence. Isaac is offered up, and, eventually, Isaac died. But God is not, Jesus told us, the God of the dead but of the living. And he identifies himself, even now, as the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob (Mark 12:26–27). All of our security, all of our sense of “at-homeness” in the culture and in this cosmos, will eventually be submerged beneath the fire of God’s righteous judgment. But, out of that, springs a new creation that started in a promise God made thousands of years ago to a
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