…frogspawn this morning near the crossover between horse and pedestrian paths.
In Sunday’s lectionary, it’s written in Genesis that Abram “believed the LORD; and the LORD reckoned it to him as righteousness.” When I read the rest of this passage, I see that Abram (soon to become Abraham) was obsessed with leaving a physical inheritance, his literal descendants. Paul makes much of this verse, in Romans 4 and Galatians 3 and elsewhere – and turns it to a very different purpose. What matters is not your physical inheritance – it’s not your parentage or ancestry or race – it is faith. The People of God is now wide open – to everyone who chooses God, regardless of inheritance.