Why should I be bound by the troubles of this earth? Why should I be tossed by the temptations of life? Why should I be afraid of the enemy? Or be tossed with the wind...? Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be." Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead - since he was about a hundred years old - and...