promises but having seen them at a distance, and being persuaded of them, and having embraced them. People who live by faith may not know where they are going. They do nonetheless have certainty—certainty in the God who called them and leads them. If we are going to understand how faith can be the opposite both of sight and doubt, we must stop talking about faith in the abstract and start being more specific. Faith, you see, isn’t something useful or valuable in itself. Faith, as we were thinking