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Standing where Abraham stood ‘Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place (ha makom) afar off’ (Gen. 22:4) Humans make primary connections to things (or people) from which they believe (or have been persuaded) they will draw life, identity and purpose. As children we find these in parents, lineage and country. These are important things which constitute our human pedigree and give us a sense of legitimacy. Until we have an encounter with God through Jesus Christ we are looking for Life. When we are ‘re-born’ (‘born from above’) we receive a new pedigree as adopted sons and heirs—joint heirs with Jesus Christ in an inheritance, as Peter says, ‘that can never perish, spoil or fade...kept in heaven for you’ (1 Peter 1:4). A different kind of Life now flows to us and within us—we’ve been joined to Life…of the eternal kind that heightens and adds vibrancy and colour to everything in this realm as well (an old hymn truly says, ‘heaven above is softer blue, earth around is sweeter green; somethi