Whose faith is it anyway?A quick reminder of our definition of faith:Faith is putting your undivided confidence in God, and then resting in Him.One of the most important things to remember is that our faith comes from GOD, NOT from us. This is sometimes difficult to understand. We have a tendency to work hard to have the faith we need to live our lives as we “should”. This is NOT what God intended. He is the giver of Faith, and we need to openly ask for it and then be willing to receive it, NOT try to do it ourselves. God has given us the eternal source of faith, it is Christ alone. Think of the faith required by Abraham seen in these verses. He takes the steps of a long journey to make a sacrifice, and then he builds an altar upon which to make the sacrifice. Next he has to physically put Isaac on the altar. The final step is to hold the knife up ready to make the sacrifice. Human faith would have moved forward to make the kill, or human faith probably would never have started out on the journey in the first place. Fortunately for Abraham, he had already yielded his life to the complete control of God alone, and allowed God’s faith to work in and through him as the instrument of God. It was God’s faith given to Abraham that allowed Abraham to make the journey and accomplish God’s ultimate will. It was also God who provided the ram for a sacrifice just at the moment it was needed.