Unreasonable Faith

"Time passed, the possibility was there, Abraham believed; time passed, it became unreasonable, Abraham believed."
This is the reason Kierkegaard found it so odd when people claimed to have moved on past faith. Embedded into the word faith is eternity minus a day. To move past faith is to be forever. As Christians we live in expectation of what is to come, holding in the faith in our Lord. We move past faith only when the promises have come to pass.
Abraham held onto faith past reason, believing that he would have a heir to fulfill the promise God gave him. And it was given to him. Yet God gave him another test, sacrificing that gift and the fulfillment of his faith. And with Isaac would die the promise yet again, falling from possible to unreasonable. Yet Abraham persisted in his faith all the way to tying Isaac to the alter, all the while convinced that his promise would not die. Even though God himself seemed against him. And in his powerlessness and folly he contended with God and prevailed.

"Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by reason of his hope whose form is madness, great by reason of the love which is hatred of oneself."

--Andy