The way of imagination

  Texts: Is. 40.1-5, 28-31; Ps. 27.1-4, 7-14; Hebrews 12.1-4, 7-13      The life of faith is not easy.   Do you ever get tired?   Do you ever get fed up with it all?   Some people speak of the Christian life as if faith were a solution to our problems.   However, living as a Christian for a few years (or perhaps even a few minutes) reveals to us that the life of faith presents us with new challenges – just ask the women and men included in the “hall of faith” of Hebrews chapter 11:   “…Others suffered mocking and flogging and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned to death; they were sawn in two; they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented—of whom the world was not worthy . They wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves and holes in the ground” (Heb. 11.36-38).      One of the greatest literary depictions of the reality of the life of ...