As we continue to journey with our Savior to Calvary’s cross and Easter’s empty tomb, our Old Testament reading paints a picture of faith’s meaning in the nuts and bolts of Abram’s everyday life. Abram’s life could breathe confidence and trust because he believed in God’s promise to send him a Savior…the Savior for all.
In the epistle lesson, Paul ties his discussion of righteousness by faith to father Abraham—in the flesh the father of the Jews; by his faith…the father of all believers who put their faith in Jesus.
The gospel speaks of our Savor’s “evangelism” conversation with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. In short, the Scripture lessons indicate why God sent Jesus into the world: to save sinners who put their faith in what Jesus did.