"What is God up to now?" he wondered. "Are you serious, Lord? Did I hear you correctly? You say you want me to withdraw my money from the bank, stop my newspaper, pull up stakes, leave the friends I have grown up with, and move to a somewhere land which has no name?" God did not even give Abraham an Exxon road atlas and a U-Haul trailer. All that he had to go with was faith. "Now I want to see those inner potentials flex their muscles," God reminded the wandering Aramean.

Even more remarkable for Abraham was that he was not in the prime of his life. He was ten years into retirement! He was seventy-five years old! Obviously, his person-to-person call from God forced his faith to sprout wings. He was mobilized to carve out a highway built on faith in and rapport with his Creator. Statistica…