believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith. . . . Therefore, we must believe before we feel, and often against our feelings if we would honor God by our faith.” As you read the account of Abram’s life, you realize he was a man of extreme faith. God asked him to do something many would find difficult, and that was to leave his family and friends and go to an unfamiliar land. Yet God’s reassuring words in Genesis 12:2–3 lessened Abram’s fear. Abram—or Abraham, as he was later called by