Often what we call “faith” is really just the desperate, irrational actions that comes from fear. Fear and faith are negative twins that can produce nearly identical blind leaps of hope. The difference is that fear is what motivates us when we’re trying to reanimate the past, and that which is familiar and secure. Whereas faith is what propels us into the possibilities of the future, which always involves a change into something new, rather than a restoration of something old. Faith produces a new wineskin, a new birth, a new heaven and earth; a resurrection into a new body, not a resuscitation of the old; a new Jerusalem to move into, not a return to the Garden of Eden.

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