As we give thanks to our Lord for all the saints in Christ, one might well wonder how they remained and endured as the saints the Lord has made and kept them to be. Such wonder is born of a faith that looks to much to the things seen. Such saints are those who lived by faith in what the Lord said and still says to them. To live this faith is to live beyond what is seen and experienced. Such faith lives and abides in the living Word of God - i.e. Jesus Christ. This is not a simple or easy faith, it “is the experience of faith, the faith that does not see, that does not understand, such faith as Luther attributes to the dying Abraham: ‘He closed his eyes and withdrew into the darkness of faith. There he found eternal light’” (Herman Sasse – We Confess Anthology [Jesus Christ – Theology of the Cross] p. 54.)
- pmwl
