If we asked Abram at this point what faith is, he would say that it is quite a nice thing and that it will pay off. When he obeyed God and left Ur, he was accompanied practically everywhere by success. He must have had doubts and concerns before the trip, but they turned out to be unnecessary. He got the impression that some invisible force preceded him and opened doors for him, led him to the right places and gave him success. It was something that none of the deities he had worshiped before afforded him - those gods were dead.

Not only did he prosper, but the new God gradually appeared to him and confirmed what he had promised. Isn't that amazing? Altars were already scattered to other deities in the land of Kannan. Now Abram walks among them and builds altars for his only God. However, the deities were not as benevolent, peaceful and wishful as his God and they did not care much for their people. When he looked at it from this side, it seemed like a happy win in the lottery - after all, this God himself found him!

He therefore remains calm and happy in his faith. Based on previous experience, he can expect that things will go further and further in the right direction, ever higher, and sooner or later, the long-desired offspring will eventually come.

Like everyone in the beginning, Abram interpreted God's word based on his hitherto experience, and his conclusions will therefore soon show to be wrong. Not essentially in the matter itself, but in the time. And in that his highest promise will not be fulfilled as easily as everything so far, but will come through the struggle of faith. The faith, which still seemed like a "nice thing" to him now, but after he spent the next 25 years... he already understood what it meant to have doubts as well as to stand against them.